Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Watt, James

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Zohar

I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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

Speakes, Larry

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Merlin

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Williams, Tennessee

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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Churchill, Winston

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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

29.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Epictetus

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Wilde, Oscar

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

Homer

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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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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham