Lying Quotes - Page 6

• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Trust, Truth

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

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• Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Principles

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

  Noel Coward

  Honesty, People, Deception

  Noel Coward (1979). “Plays, four”, Methuen Drama

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• Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

  Tim Allen

  Funny, Positive, Liars

  "Land Your Dream Job: High-Performance Techniques to Get Noticed, Get Hired, and Get Ahead". Book by John Middleton, Ken Langdon, and Nikki Cartwright, 2007.

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• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

  Maimonides

  Liars, Book, Writing

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• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

  Havelock Ellis

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company

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• When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie.
  [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

  Plutarch

  Liars

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 485-487, 1922.

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• Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

  Pietro Aretino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Purpose, Being Lied, Kind

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• Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

  Marcel Proust

  Time, Literature, Littles

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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

  Minna Antrim

  Women, Hypocrite, Differences

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• A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

  Alfred Adler

  Truth, Danger In Life, Dangerous

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• The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

  Richard Bach

  Lies We Tell Ourselves, Denial, One Line

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• I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.

  George Washington

  Hate, Imagination, Deception

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.311

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• As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Knows

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.57, Crown Forum

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• Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Curiosity, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.226, Рипол Классик

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• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Duty, Rate

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.447, Courier Dover Publications

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• A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Education, Truth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

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• Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

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• There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

  William James

  Misunderstood, Statistics, Persuasion

  'The Varieties of Religious Experience' (1902) lectures 14 and 15, p. 355

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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?

  Quentin Crisp

  Block, People, Good Man

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Marriage, Inspiration

  Without Feathers "The Scrolls" (1975) See Bible 167

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  The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  Lucille Ball

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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• In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Peace, Truth

  Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference November 30, 1943; in Winston Churchill: The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338.

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