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

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

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

Traven, B.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Frost, Robert

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

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

Voltaire

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

10.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

11.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

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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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A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

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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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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''

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Merlin

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Beecher, Lyman

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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Mcilvanney, William

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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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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Crowley, Aleister

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It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

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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

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

Feather, William

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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Greene, Graham

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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Mailer, Norman

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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