Lying Quotes
8656 Lying quotes by 4266 unique authors
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The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
— James Russell Lowell
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Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
— H. L. Mencken
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One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and…
— Sylvia Plath
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It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies…
— Joyce Cary
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I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me,…
— Learned Hand
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...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A lie is an excuse guarded
— Jonathan Swift
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I'm not smart enough to lie
— Ronald Reagan
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
— Heinrich Heine
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
— Eric Hoffer
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A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.
— Paula Fox
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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of…
— Robert Wagner
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The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.
— Mark Twain
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
— Carl Sandburg
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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
— Saadi
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
— Thomas Carlyle
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We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained…
— Thomas Paine
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