Lie Quotes
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Perfect Tommy: Pictures don't lie. Reno: The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way.
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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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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.
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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
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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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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
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Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.
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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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Priorities lie in your actions.
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In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.
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It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie.
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Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.
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Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.
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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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Everybody's trusting in the heart like the heart don't lie...
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I don't generally like things that are too pedestrian. But at the same time, and if I'm in the right mood, hey - I ain't gonna lie - I listen to Joni Mitchell. I listen to 'Blue,' I listen to Miles Davis.
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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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I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.
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Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that we are immortal and carry on the business of life.
