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Lies and lying

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.
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1.
The lie is a condition of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
South, Bishop Robert

3.
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.

4.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

5.
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
Bowen, Elizabeth

6.
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Feather, William

7.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
Epictetus

8.
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

9.
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.

10.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Proverb, Russian

12.
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
Mcilvanney, William

13.
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mencken, H. L.

15.
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.

16.
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

17.
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

18.
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

19.
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Thatcher, Margaret

20.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
Twain, Mark

21.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Canetti, Elias

22.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Syrus, Publilius

23.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

24.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.
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

26.
Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

27.
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
Steiner, George

28.
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''

29.
By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.
Kant, Immanuel

30.
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Talmud, The

31.
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
Twain, Mark

32.
A liar is full of oaths.
Corneille, Pierre

33.
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

34.
Liars are always ready to take oaths.
Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

35.
A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
Watt, James

36.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
France, Anatole

37.
If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.
Zohar

38.
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
Soderbergh, Steven

39.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Antrim, Minna

40.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

41.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Cicero, Marcus T.

42.
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

43.
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Voltaire

44.
The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.
Frost, Robert

45.
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

46.
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Dunne, Finley Peter

47.
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

48.
When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

49.
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Cocteau, Jean

50.
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Merlin


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