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A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

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A liar is full of oaths.

Pierre Corneille

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

Mark Twain

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

Finley Peter Dunne

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

Mark Twain

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

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

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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.

Oscar Wilde

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

Immanuel Kant

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Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.

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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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.

Norman Mailer

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Aleister Crowley

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Great talker, great liar.

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

Graham Greene

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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel de Montaigne

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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

Joseph Addison

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

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

Michel de Montaigne

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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

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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.

Mark Twain

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

Voltaire

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Graham Greene

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Aristotle

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It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

J. K. Rowling

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

Hilaire Belloc

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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Norman Douglas

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

Epictetus

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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.

Marcel Proust

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Francis Bacon

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

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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.

Clare Boothe Luce

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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Michel de Montaigne

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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.

H. L. Mencken

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Lying rides upon debt's back.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Tennessee Williams

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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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.

John Ruskin

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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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?

Quentin Crisp

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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Henry Miller

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Elias Canetti

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Helen Rowland

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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Minna Antrim

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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.

Oscar Wilde

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

George Bernard Shaw

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The lie is a condition of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Robert Frost

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

H. L. Mencken

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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.

Winston Churchill

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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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They say is often a great liar.

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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

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

Robert South

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

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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!

Georges Bernanos

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

William Feather

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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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Anatole France

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

George Steiner

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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

James Thurber

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

Margaret Thatcher

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A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

A liar is full of oaths.

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

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

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

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

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

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.

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

Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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

Great talker, great liar.

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

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

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

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

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

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

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

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

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

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.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

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

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

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

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.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

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

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

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?

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

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

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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

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

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

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

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.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

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.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The lie is a condition of life.

The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

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

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

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

They say is often a great liar.

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

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.

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

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

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!

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

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.