Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Merlin

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Steiner, George

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Aristotle

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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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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Simon, Paul

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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Byron, Lord

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Watt, James

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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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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

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One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.