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So much of being a woman is telling lies -- Candace Bushnell
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. -- Lillian Hellman
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. -- Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. -- Aristotle
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. -- Malcolm Bradbury
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough -- Edgar Watson Howe
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. -- E. W. Howe
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one will not allow himself to wrong others, he will wrong himself. If he doesn't come across anyone to lie to, he will lie to himself in his own thoughts. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
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
Telling lies does not work in advertising. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. -- James E. Faust
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. -- Josefina Vazquez Mota
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. -- Eric Carr
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make. -- Jane Fonda
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
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
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
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
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
Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true. -- Alice Cooper
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
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
A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it. -- Nadeem Aslam
The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie. -- Robert Breault
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
We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true. -- Oliver North
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. -- Paulo Coelho
Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie. -- Robert Breault
Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you. -- Marissa Meyer
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth. -- Jonathan Maberry
I have a friend who is an excellent liar. His secret: Believe the lie yourself when you're telling it. -- Jack Heffron
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth? -- Jean Rostand
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
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. -- William Faulkner
Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web. -- Jenna Alatari
What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth? -- Robert Redford
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
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 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 prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. -- Shakira
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
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
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
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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