Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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.

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Voltaire

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

Twain, Mark

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Milosz, Ceslaw

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

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

Antrim, Minna

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

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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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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.

11.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Greene, Graham

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

19.

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

20.

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Merlin

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

28.

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Simon, Paul

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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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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

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Feather, William

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

Greene, Graham

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

Aristotle

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Steiner, George

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