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

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Byron, Lord

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Greene, Graham

12.

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

Watt, James

13.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Thirkell, Angela

14.

I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

17.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

18.

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

South, Bishop Robert

19.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

23.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

24.

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

Armstrong, Robert

25.

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

Proust, Marcel

26.

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Speakes, Larry

30.

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

31.

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''

32.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

33.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

37.

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

Merlin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

41.

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

42.

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

Haig, Alexander

43.

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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 a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.