Lying Quotes
8656 quotes by 4266 authors
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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.
— Justus von Liebig
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The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, income, personality, mood.…
— Eric Gurney
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The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a…
— Champfleury
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He is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way.
— Champfleury
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You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.
— Matthew Kahn
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How do we break this cycle of adding to the unconsciousness on the planet? The answer lies in seeing that our true nature consists ONLY…
— Mike Jeffries
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This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to…
— Simon Heffer
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One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential…
— Arthur Schuster
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
— Angela Thirkell
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It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.
— Randi Rhodes
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Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
— Nawal El Saadawi
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The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.
— Unknown Author
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Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.
— Marquis de Custine
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True art lies in a reality that is felt.
— Odilon Redon
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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
— Joy Baluch
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The greatest moments of Native History lie ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place. The Native American has been…
— Billy Graham
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If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field…
— Robert Koch
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When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one…
— André Brink
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The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to…
— Theodor Adorno
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So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which…
— Roger McDonald
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