Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Feather, William

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

Zohar

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Armstrong, Robert

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Aristotle

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

Greene, Graham

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

13.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Thirkell, Angela

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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Rowland, Helen

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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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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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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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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Byron, Lord

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

Epictetus

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Szilard, Leo

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Merlin

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Voltaire

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

Williams, Tennessee

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Steiner, George

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