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Lies and lying

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

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

Voltaire

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Phaedrus

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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.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Merlin

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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, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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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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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.

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

Greene, Graham

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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.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Simon, Paul

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

Feather, William

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Don't lie if you don't have to.

Szilard, Leo

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It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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.