Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Steiner, George

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Greene, Graham

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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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No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Szilard, Leo

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Feather, William

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Merlin

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

Greene, Graham

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Simon, Paul

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

Byron, Lord

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

Zohar

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

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

Voltaire

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