Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Speakes, Larry

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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.

I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

Homer

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Phaedrus

12.

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

Watt, James

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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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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 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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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.

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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

25.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Steiner, George

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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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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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It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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

Merlin

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

Greene, Graham

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Voltaire

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