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

Mcilvanney, William

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

Greene, Graham

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''

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Zohar

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

Homer

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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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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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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

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

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

Phaedrus

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

Merlin

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Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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

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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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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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The lie is a condition of life.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Liars need to have good memories.

Sidney, Algernon

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

Speakes, Larry

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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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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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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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They say is often a great liar.

Proverb

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Simon, Paul

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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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There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Sterling, John

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

Szilard, Leo

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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