Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Watt, James

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Voltaire

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

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

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''

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Feather, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Byron, Lord

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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