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Lies Quotes by Mark Twain
- The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing…
- You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll…
- Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
- It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.
- Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is…
- I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to…
- Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.
- The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
- When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the…
- Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with…
- It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity…
- If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- We have the best government that money can buy.
- There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
- Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
- Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
- The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
- A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
- Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his…
- The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,…
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