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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. -- Malcolm Bradbury
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. -- Aristotle
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. -- E. W. Howe
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make. -- Jane Fonda
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
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
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. -- William Hague
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
So much of being a woman is telling lies -- Candace Bushnell
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. -- Lillian Hellman
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
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. -- Nicholas Haslam
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
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
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
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
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. -- Isaac Asimov
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 telling lies -- unless one counts journalists. -- George Orwell
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? -- George Orwell
There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie. -- Richard Gere
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. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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. Your appearance in the doorway! ... You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were. -- Robert Walser
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, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. -- Maya Angelou
Telling lies does not work in advertising. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. -- Aristotle
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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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
I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later. -- Nicholas Haslam
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
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything. -- Anton Chekhov
Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. -- Pietro Aretino
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. -- George Orwell
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. -- Lauren Groff
...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them. -- Gabrielle Zevin
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. -- bell hooks
Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them. -- Brock Clarke
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough -- Edgar Watson Howe
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. -- Martha Graham
Mujib [Rahman], as you've seen, is a congenital liar. He can't help telling lies - it's something stronger than he. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. -- Chauncey Depew
Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping. -- Max de Pree
The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth. -- Deacon Jones
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them -- Adlai E. Stevenson II
Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies. -- R.M. Ford
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood. -- Robert Kennedy
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. -- Franz Kafka
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. -- Franz Kafka
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
Ho! Wise men say, 'He who hath not a good and ready memory should never meddle in telling lies.'Drew smiled. I have a good and ready memory. -- Deeanne Gist
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. -- David B. Coe

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