Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Bernanos, Georges

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

Zohar

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Sterling, John

10.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

11.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Voltaire

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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

17.

Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Rowland, Helen

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Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar

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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Miller, Henry

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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Steiner, George

26.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

27.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Thirkell, Angela

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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Feather, William

32.

It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

33.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

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With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Proust, Marcel

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Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

40.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Merlin

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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Byron, Lord

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By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Ruskin, John

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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy