Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Zohar

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Epictetus

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

Haig, Alexander

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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

11.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Steiner, George

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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.

17.

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

Zohar

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

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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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Greene, Graham

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Byron, Lord

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Feather, William

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.