Being Lied Quotes - Page 2

• You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heaven, Goodness, Deceived

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• People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop making arguments, you see support for me starts to rise.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, People, Support

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• We are just coming out of a 100-year stupor from being lied to by the tobacco industry for a century about the effects on young people, on cancer, these candy cigarettes that they promised had nothing to do with kids, Joe Camel that they promised was focused on the, you know, 55-year-old white male smoker, which we know is wrong. And we finally got out of that. Why in the world would we want to create the same thing, just not Big Tobacco this time, Big Marijuana?

  Kevin Sabet

  Cancer, Kids, Marijuana

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.

  Nadia Bolz-Weber

  Love, Christian, Teenager

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• A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Honesty, Lying, Care

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• I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. President Bush is trying to force 9/11 and Saddam together.

  Janeane Garofalo

  People, Trying, President

  "Questioning Bush's motives on Iraq". "In the Crossfire" with Tucker Carlson, James Carville, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2003.

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• I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.

  Benjamin Carson

  Problem, Lied, No Problem

  Transcript of the Fourth Republican Debate in Milwaukee, time.com. November 11, 2015.

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  Who lies for you will lie against you.

  John Locke

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Lying, Purpose, Kind

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• A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had been dishonest regarding an issue, Cosby promised that if he told him the truth, he would not hit him. When his son did confess, Cosby did hit him. Seeing his son's shock and hurt, Cosby said he hoped this lesson had deepened his understanding of the anguish generated by a sense betrayal.

  Bill Cosby

  Hurt, Pain, Betrayal

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Heartbreak, Truth, Lying

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

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• The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Trust, Karma, Betrayal

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4190, e-artnow

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• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  Walter Scott

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Honesty, Memories, Liars

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• When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

  Brian Eno

  Uncles, Lying, Done

  "Lessons in how to lie about Iraq" by Brian Eno, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

  Samuel Butler

  Hate, Lying, Mind

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 19

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

  Tad Williams

  Honesty, Fear, Lying

  Tad Williams (1994). “To Green Angel Tower”, p.667, Penguin

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• The truth is more important than the facts.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wise, Witty, Truth

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier

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• I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

  Richard Linklater

  Age, Lied

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview With David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational, Memories, Truth

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