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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
[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way... -- Adolf Hitler
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
American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing. -- Corey Clark
We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent. -- Alison Lurie
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. -- Lee Child
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going. -- Ashwin Sanghi
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy. -- Brendan Coyle
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
Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it. -- Bob Beauprez
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. -- Seneca the Younger
I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you. -- Rohit Shetty
I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge. -- Sammy Hagar
Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that. -- Gunter Grass
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
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
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
In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie! -- Sidney Howard
Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth. -- Galileo Galilei
You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you -- Daniel Black
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I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie. -- James Branch Cabell
The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with. -- J. K. Rowling
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. -- Samuel Butler
... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much. -- Storm Jameson
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it. -- Avigdor Lieberman
Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. -- Miyamoto Musashi
The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action. -- A. C. Bradley
What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth? -- Saurabh Sharma
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent. -- Alison Lurie
Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it. -- Lord Byron
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
A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered. -- Josephine Hart

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