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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. -- Josh Billings
...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same. -- Charles Dickens
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. -- Jonathan Swift
I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet. -- Ken MacLeod
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi. -- Oscar Isaac
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued. -- Nick Cannon
Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles' medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies. -- Ezra Taft Benson
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. -- Meister Eckhart
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. -- Sherman Alexie
In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words. -- Dennis Prager
And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things. -- Bruce Nauman
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Full fathom five thy father lies -- William Shakespeare
My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child -- Louisa May Alcott
Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive -- Adolf Hitler
Gwynned lies two days westwards; still further south, the weregeld calls. Mayhap with All-Father Woden's favour, my deeds may yet inspire the skalds. -- George Gordon Byron
My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to"). -- Gore Vidal
Will we listen to "Satan, the author of all lies . . . ? Or are we going to believe a loving Heavenly Father, who is the source of all truth and righteousness?" -- Richard C. Edgley
A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality. -- Yukio Mishima

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