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  • Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

    Truth   Children   Lying  
  • Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.

    Lying   Wind   Covering  
  • The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

    Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.172, Pan Macmillan
  • Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

    Honesty   Men   World  
  • The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

  • 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 that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • So much of being a woman is telling lies

    Candace Bushnell (2013). “Lipstick Jungle”, p.11, Hachette UK
  • Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

    Truth   Honesty   Lying  
    "Creusa". Play by Sophocles, fragment 323,
  • I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

    Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”
  • If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

    Truth   Lying   Liars  
  • We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

    Children   Lying   Men  
    Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.349, eKitap Projesi
  • 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 fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

    Honesty   Lying   Fall  
    George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
  • Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

  • Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

    Peace   War   Lying  
  • If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

    Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD
  • He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there and he says to me in this ad, until you have the guts to call me a phony soldier to my face, stop telling lies about my service. You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, and then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media and a TV ad, to walk into as many people as he can walk into.

    Lying   Stupid   Media  
    "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. October 4, 2007.
  • Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

    Wisdom   Truth   Honesty  
  • The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

    Lying   Men   Silence  
    "Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers". Book by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881.
  • It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

    Art   Lying   Taught  
    Aristotle (2015). “Poetics”, p.50, Xist Publishing
  • A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

    'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53
  • If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

    "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.
  • Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

    Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)
  • 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 be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister – no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

    Lying   Men   Cynical  
    William Hague's Speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.
  • 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.

    Truth   Lying   Race  
    Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books
  • People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

  • Im hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt peoples feelings, but then Ill blow it 10 minutes later.

    Hurt   Lying   Blow  
  • One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

    Life   Success   Lying  
  • The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.

    Lying   Stupid   Book  
    Source: www.sfsignal.com
  • 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 truth.

    Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.180, Egmont UK
  • He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

    Liars   Lying   Deception  
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.286
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