Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

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

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Voltaire

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Williams, Tennessee

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.

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

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

10.

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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Twain, Mark

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

Merlin

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

Feather, William

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

Aristotle

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

Greene, Graham

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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.

27.

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

Phaedrus

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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.

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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

Homer

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

Haig, Alexander

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Greene, Graham

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Epictetus

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Kant, Immanuel

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