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“Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.”
James Hall Quotes |
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“All men are born truthful and die liars.”
Vauvenargues Quotes |
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“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a lot of explanations.”
Saki Quotes |
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“A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.”
Josh Billings Quotes |
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“I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.”
Samuel Butler Quotes |
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“One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.”
Corneille Quotes |
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“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.”
Finley Peter Dunne Quotes |
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“Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes |
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“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
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“There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.”
William James Quotes |
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“A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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“The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.”
H. L. Mencken Quotes |
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“A liar should have a good memory.”
Quintilian Quotes |
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“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.”
William Shenstone Quotes |
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“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes |
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“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Samuel Butler Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.”
Aristippus Quotes |
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“We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.”
Samuel Butler Quotes |
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“There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes |
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“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”
Alexander Pope Quotes |
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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.”
Lyman Beecher Quotes |
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“It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.”
Norman Douglas Quotes |
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“It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place.”
H.L. Mencken Quotes |
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