Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Szilard, Leo

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

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

Speakes, Larry

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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

9.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

10.

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.

11.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Homer

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

Phaedrus

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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

20.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

23.

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Kant, Immanuel

25.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Twain, Mark

30.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Merlin

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Proust, Marcel

36.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Feather, William

38.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Armstrong, Robert

40.

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

Thirkell, Angela

41.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Russian

43.

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

Voltaire

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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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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.