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I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied. -- Ken Livingstone
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. -- Shakira
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. -- Adlai Stevenson
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
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. -- Tom Waits
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families. -- Keith Henson
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. -- H. L. Mencken
I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie. -- Frank Ocean
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth. -- Tayari Jones
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast. -- Tom Waits
Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business. -- Siri Hustvedt
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 will stop telling the truth about them. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white. -- Anthony Hemingway
It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. -- Harry S Truman
Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away. -- Monica Raymund
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth. -- Jonathan Frid
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. -- Pete Postlethwaite
Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us. -- Joanna Scott
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie. -- Tom Wolfe
There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie. -- Cecil Parker
As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. -- Osama bin Laden
The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling. -- Elizabeth Bowen
The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie. -- Robert Breault
A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it. -- Nadeem Aslam
If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Impact of telling a lie: The day it is spoken to the day it is caught. -- Neeraj Bhanot
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. -- Paulo Coelho
Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you. -- Marissa Meyer
We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true. -- Oliver North
Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie. -- Robert Breault
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth? -- Jean Rostand
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth. -- Jonathan Maberry
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. -- Eric Carr
I have a friend who is an excellent liar. His secret: Believe the lie yourself when you're telling it. -- Jack Heffron
Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do, -- Tim Waterstone
What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. -- Tana French
When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do. -- Gautama Buddha
If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth. -- Harry S. Truman
Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web. -- Jenna Alatari
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true -- Lady Gaga
What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth? -- Robert Redford
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. -- William Faulkner
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth. -- Ally Carter
I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. -- Shakira
If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what. -- Margot Livesey
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 then. -- Mario Puzo
People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth. -- George Mikes
With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding. -- Mike Rinder
Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite. -- Judith Viorst
I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye. -- James Taylor
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth. -- Samuel Johnson
That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap. -- Richard Belzer
Being with a man incapable of telling a lie "? a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied "? sucked the big one. -- Gena Showalter

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