Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Steiner, George

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

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

Proverb, Russian

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

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

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

Aristotle

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

Epictetus

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Steiner, George

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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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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

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Szilard, Leo

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Greene, Graham

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Merlin

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Mcilvanney, William

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Watt, James

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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