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Lies and lying

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

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

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.

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

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Zohar

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

Epictetus

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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!

Bernanos, Georges

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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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.

Proust, Marcel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

Rowland, Helen

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Byron, Lord

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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?

Crisp, Quentin

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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 like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Merlin

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Greene, Graham

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

Simon, Paul

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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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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.

Mencken, H. L.

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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