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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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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

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

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Homer

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

Thirkell, Angela

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

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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 and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

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

Epictetus

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.

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

Zohar

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

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

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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''

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Phaedrus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Crowley, Aleister

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

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

Speakes, Larry

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

Steiner, George

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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