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

Crowley, Aleister

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

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A liar is full of oaths.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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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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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Greene, Graham

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

Steiner, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Twain, Mark

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aristotle

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Merlin

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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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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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

Szilard, Leo

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Feather, William