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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

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

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Mcilvanney, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Feather, William

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

Merlin

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Steiner, George

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Greene, Graham

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Voltaire

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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig