Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Voltaire

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Greene, Graham

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Epictetus

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Haig, Alexander

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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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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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 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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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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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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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Watt, James

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Greene, Graham

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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