Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Szilard, Leo

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Byron, Lord

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

24.

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 and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Ruskin, John

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Greene, Graham

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Zohar

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Voltaire

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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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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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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

42.

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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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

South, Bishop Robert