Lie Quotes
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I want people to be inspired to do what's in front of them. If you won't give a dime out of a dollar, don't talk to a billionaire about giving their money away because if you don't give a dime out of a dollar, I can promise you, you're not going to give a 100 million out of a billion. It's a lie.
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By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.
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Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
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But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear... You are in the city of lies.
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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
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Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
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A GOOD LIE IN THE RIGHT PLACE CAN MAKE UP FOR ANY NUMBER OF WRONGS.
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Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.
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I love the Beatles. What more can I say? I'm not gonna lie to you. I love 'em. They make me happy. And I think they were the best, and still are.
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The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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I have become a little more cynical and, I would like to believe, a little wiser. When I first came to Mumbai, I was very idealistic. Now I can look anyone in the face and tell a lie. But I'm in a good place.
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
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I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.
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The heart does not lie.
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Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.
