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Lies Quotes
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, October 26, 1939
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Lenin (1870 - 1924)
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo
A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Creusa |  |
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