Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Epictetus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Speakes, Larry

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Feather, William

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

Talmud, The

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

Zohar

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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 and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Byron, Lord

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

Simon, Paul

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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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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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 like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

31.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

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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

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Steiner, George

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth