Telling Lies Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
— Jane Fonda
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I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was…
— George Orwell
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Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will…
— George Orwell
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
— Malcolm Bradbury
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At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal…
— Pete Postlethwaite
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When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to…
— William Hague
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
— E. W. Howe
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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
— Helen Rowland
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we…
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them,…
— Maya Angelou
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Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.
— Denis Johnson
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Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
— Thomas Jefferson
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It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if…
— Mario Puzo
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Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.
— Tom Holt
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So much of being a woman is telling lies
— Candace Bushnell
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Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies.…
— Robert Walser
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But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the…
— Elizabeth Wein
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Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. Â And if you…
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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