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Lies and lying

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Antrim, Minna

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Thirkell, Angela

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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.

11.

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Merlin

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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.

Churchill, Winston

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

Feather, William

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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

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Proverb, Russian

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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

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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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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

32.

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

Mailer, Norman

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon