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Lies and lying

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

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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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Haig, Alexander

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Simon, Paul

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

Talmud, The

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

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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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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 an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Evans

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

Zohar

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The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Greene, Graham

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

Speakes, Larry

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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

Feather, William

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

Szilard, Leo

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Watt, James

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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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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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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Soderbergh, Steven

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

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

Phaedrus

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The lie is a condition of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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