Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Voltaire

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Watt, James

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Haig, Alexander

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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 would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

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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 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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Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies is not easily kept out. Source unknown A great leader molds public opinion, a wise leader listens to it.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Homer

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Epictetus

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Steiner, George

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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Mcilvanney, William

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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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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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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Greene, Graham