Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Haig, Alexander

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

Aristotle

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Phaedrus

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

Byron, Lord

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

A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Szilard, Leo

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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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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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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Greene, Graham

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Haig, Alexander

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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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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Steiner, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Voltaire

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bowen, Elizabeth