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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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''

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Steiner, George

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Crowley, Aleister

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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Simon, Paul

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If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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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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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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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Merlin

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

Homer

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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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