Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Proverb, Russian

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

Twain, Mark

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

Epictetus

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Armstrong, Robert

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

Greene, Graham

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

Twain, Mark

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Feather, William

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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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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

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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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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Aristotle

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

Speakes, Larry

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

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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Zohar

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

Simon, Paul