Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Great talker, great liar.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Canetti, Elias

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.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Voltaire

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Byron, Lord

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

Szilard, Leo

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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 like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Steiner, George

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aristotle

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

Zohar

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Epictetus

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

Simon, Paul

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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