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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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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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Twain, Mark

A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Aristotle

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

Speakes, Larry

Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

10.

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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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

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

Szilard, Leo

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

Feather, William

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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 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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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

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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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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Mcilvanney, William

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

Zohar

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

25.

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

Armstrong, Robert

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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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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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Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

30.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Merlin

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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

37.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Crowley, Aleister

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

40.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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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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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

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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

50.

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