Lying Quotes
8656 quotes by 4266 authors
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Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral?…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for…
— Christopher Columbus
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulneÂss while telling carefully constructeÂd lies, to hold simultaneoÂusly two opinions which cancelled out,…
— George Orwell
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When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself,…
— Ziggy Marley
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If you repeat a lie often enough if becomes accepted as truth.
— Joseph Goebbels
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In time, lies bring turmoil, where honesty brings peace.
— Wes Fesler
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Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.
— Wes Fesler
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Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit…
— Wes Fesler
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In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor...…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
— Og Mandino
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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
— Robert Browning
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or…
— Freya Stark
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Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night,…
— Mark Twain
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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
— Jan Morris
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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
— John Milton
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What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
— Laurence Olivier
Who Wrote These Lying Quotes
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