Famous Lying Quotes - Famous Quotes about Lies
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.
- Judith Rossner
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, for a lie which is all of a lie may be met and fought with outright, but a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
- Alfred Tennyson
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
- Anita Brookner
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'. (on Lillian Hellman)
- Mary McCarthy
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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
- Joseph Marie de Maistre
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I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.
- Lynne Fontanne
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I think that people who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.
- Jerry Seinfeld
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In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
- William Shakespeare
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
- Aristotle
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Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
- Tim Allen
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.
- Robert Flaherty
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.
- Adolph Hitler
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Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post. (refusing a dinner invitation)
- Lord Charles Beresford
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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
- William Feather
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