Lie Quotes
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If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
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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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What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?
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I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.
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I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.
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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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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
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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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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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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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When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth.
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That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
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The lie that started it all.
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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
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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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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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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
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Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace; Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.
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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
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I’m wide awake, I’ll drop you off for saying that, For days and two weeks, It was you who was defending such a lie, Oh what a lie, Was it a lie?
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We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
