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

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''

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

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

Watt, James

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aristotle

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Epictetus

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Voltaire

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Zohar

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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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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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

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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

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

Speakes, Larry

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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Greene, Graham

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Don't lie if you don't have to.

Szilard, Leo

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Feather, William

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

Greene, Graham

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

Crowley, Aleister