Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Simon, Paul

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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.

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

Frost, Robert

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Homer

17.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

18.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

19.

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

South, Bishop Robert

20.

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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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Montague, C. E.

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

Feather, William

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

Watt, James

25.

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

Proverb, Russian

26.

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

Zohar

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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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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

29.

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

Thirkell, Angela

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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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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

33.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

36.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Twain, Mark

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

40.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Aristotle

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

Epictetus