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Lies and lying

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

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Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

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.

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

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Haig, Alexander

10.

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

11.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Simon, Paul

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

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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 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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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Speakes, Larry

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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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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

28.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Merlin

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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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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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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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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Steiner, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

46.

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

Aristotle

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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