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Lying 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.
- 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,…
- It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.
- Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing…
- 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…
- Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
- A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.
- A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
- 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…
- Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.
- The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples…
- In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of…
- Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
- There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
- Never tell a lie-except for practice.
- Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.
- A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.
- The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
More Lying Quotes
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In delay there lies no plenty. — William Shakespeare
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden