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A good memory is needed once we have lied.
Corneille
Show me a liar and I will show thee a thief.
George Edward Herbert
Who dares think one thing and another tell My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Homer
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Peter said Ananias why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?... And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost.
Bible
And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.
Lord Byron
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
Cicero
Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
Terminological inexactitude
Winston Churchill
Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
Sydney Smith
Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.
French proverb
Truth is the safest lie.
Jewish Proverb
All men are born truthful and die liars.
Vauvenargues
The lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler
Who lies for you will lie against you.
Bosnian Proverb
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
Samuel Johnson
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
Saki
A half-truth is a whole lie.
Jewish Proverb
A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian
There's a very thin difference between lying and breaking the promise.
Toba Beta
Moreover, grandmothers of students who aren't doing so well in class are at even higher risk - students who are failing are fifty times more likely to lose a grandmother compared with non-failing students. In a paper exploring this sad connection, Adam speculates that the phenomenon is due to intrafamilial dynamics, which is to say, students' grandmothers care so much about their grandchildren that they worry themselves to death over the outcome of exams.
Dan Ariely
Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Bergen Evans
The one undeniable benefit of having spent some time in the closet is that it nurtures a talent that you can fall back on any time: lying convincingly. Sometimes I worried that queer kids in the twenty-first century coming out at twelve, or even younger, would never develop that valuable skill.
Bob Smith
Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.
Sam Harris
Were you lying?""I never lie," he said piously. "About what?""The sand, the snake."For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.
Megan Whalen Turner
The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
Douglas Malloch
A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It’s weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.
Howard L. Salter
Tell me it's not true."He sighed. "Fine. It's not true."...And yet..."Are you lying?"He rolled his eyes. "Of course I'm lying.""Not cool." I muttered.Kyle shrugged. "I didn't want you to start hyperventilating again." His hair fell over his eyes and he brushed it aside. "I figured annoying you was safer than admitting anything.
Kathleen Peacock
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
Sam Harris
Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's about using those lies to say something true and real. It's about showing the reader something. It's about making them
Stacia Kane
I lied," I said. ..."I know it," he said."Then do something about it. Do anything, just so it's something.""I cant," he said."There aint anything to do? Not anything?""I didn't say that," Grandfather said. "I said I couldn't. You can.""What?" I said. "How can I forget it? Tell me how to.""You cant," he said. "Nothing is ever forgotten. Nothing is ever lost. It's too valuable.""Then what can I do?""Live with it," Grandfather said."Live with it? You mean, forever? For the rest of my life? Not ever to get rid of it? Never? I cant. Dont you see that I cant?""Yes you can," he said. "You will. A gentleman always does. A gentleman can live through anything. He faces anything. A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences, even when he did not himself instigate them but only acquiesced to them, didn't say No though he knew he should.
William Faulkner
Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.
Winston S. Churchill
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Mark Twain
Just got to fnafflebrump caddwallame, all right?" Edie says, and no one pays attention. She learned at Lady Gravely's that nonsense which can be misheard is a very good way to lie without getting caught. People just insert whatever they think you must be doing, and - having lied to themselves on your behalf - are disinclined to check up on you.
Nick Harkaway
Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.
George Hammond
Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!
Andrew Levkoff
Pretending is another way of lying, and I am so good at both.
Kiersten White
Why are you lying to me? I'm so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can't handle it?
Kasie West
having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liar’s paradise
Christopher Paul Curtis
No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.
Rex Stout
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.
Norman Mailer
Liars are exhausting people.
Walter Kirn
She lied to me today," Archie said."A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.
Chelsea Cain
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
J.B. Priestley
Well." Wolfe was judicious. "You were not under oath. The police have been lied to informally many times by many people, including me. The right to lie in the service of your own interests is highly valued and frequently exercised.
Rex Stout
The lie detector didn’t react to anything I said, but I wouldn’t dare smile.
Embee
By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Honesty doesn't require that she issue a continuous disclaimer: "I see you are looking at my face. Please be aware that I don't look this good first thing in the morning.
Sam Harris
Are you okay?” someone asked.t“I’m fine,” I snapped, turning to face Jayden Griffin.t“I have to admit, you’re getting better at lying, Tess Embers,” he said quietly. “However, I know you’re not okay.
Embee
That’s not necessary,” Mr. Bradshaw said, “although you are all perfectly welcome in the guest rooms upstairs, I won’t ask you to lie to your-”t“Mr. Bradshaw.” Nathan grinned. “You’ve been asking us to lie to our parents from the moment we each set foot in this house. We’re spies; we’ll all find excuses to stay here. No one wants to leave the only place in the city where the Pentagon won’t dare enter. Not tonight. Not after what happened.
Embee
Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.
Donna Lynn Hope
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
Arthur Schopenhauer
This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.
Lemony Snicket
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.
Stephen King
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
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