Best Tell Lies Quotes
71 Tell Lies quotes by 55 unique authors
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My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't…
— Gore Vidal
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
— Agatha Christie
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors…
— Graham Greene
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We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
— Epictetus
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For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without…
— Derrick Jensen
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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
— David Ogilvy
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
— Pablo Picasso
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We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found…
— Tad Williams
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In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.
— Derrick Jensen
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Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?
— Alice Munro
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I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are…
— Haruki Murakami
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I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am…
— Mark Haddon
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Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.
— Aleister Crowley
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Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know.…
— Catherine Fisher
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Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man…
— Shusaku Endo
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I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and…
— Mark Haddon
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and…
— Henrik Ibsen
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We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it…
— Neil Gaiman
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The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you…
— Alex Sanchez
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I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the softest place to…
— Lauren Oliver
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People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.
— Orhan Pamuk
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People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
— Anne Perry
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Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when…
— Michael Haneke
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Don't tell lies to the person who trust you... but never trust a person who had fully fooled you.
— Unknown Author
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