Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old lies quotes, lies sayings, and lies proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.Georges Braque
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Surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to speed the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.Zadie Smith
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In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.Graham Greene
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Can we devise one of those lies—the kind which crop up as the occasion demands, which we were talking about not so long ago—so that with a single noble lie we can indoctrinate the rulers themselves, preferably, but at least the rest of the community?Plato
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.William James
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The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.H.G. Wells
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Died some, pro patria, / non ‘dulce’ non ‘et decor’… / walked eye-deep in hell / believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving / came home, home to a lieEzra Pound
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Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.Ludwig van Beethoven
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From all that terror teaches, / From lies of tongue and pen, / From all the easy speeches / That comfort cruel men, / From sale and profanation / Of honour and the sword, / From sleep and from damnation, / Deliver us, good Lord!G.K. Chesterton
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If I ever said in grief or pride. I tired of honest things. I lied.Edna Saint Vincent Millay
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You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.Suzette Haden Elgin
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.Rita Mae Brown
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.Thomas Jefferson
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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.George Bernard Shaw
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a dear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.Hannah Arendt
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Hurt me with the truth. Don’t comfort me with a lie.Rihanna
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From long journeys long lies.Spanish Proverb
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If lies are to find credence, they must be patched with truth.Danish Proverb
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Lies and gossip have a wretched offspring.Danish Proverb
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Lies and Latin go round the world.Danish Proverb
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Lies have short legs and are soon overtaken.Spanish Proverb
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Lies have short wings.German Proverb
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Lies melt the snow.German Proverb
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Lies that build are better than truths that destroy.West African Proverb
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Rabbits and lies easily multiply.Spanish Proverb
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No man understands dishonesty better than the abbot who has been a monk.French Proverb