Lie Quotes
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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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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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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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The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that.
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Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me.
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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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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One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
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Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.
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In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.
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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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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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If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
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His lie ability is an asset.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.
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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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Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.
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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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The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
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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.
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Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it.
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It's important that you don't lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.
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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.
