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

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Greene, Graham

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Phaedrus

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Watt, James

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Greene, Graham

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

Steiner, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Feather, William

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

Byron, Lord