Lie Quotes
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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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Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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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 fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
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A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.
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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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There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.
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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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Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret!
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Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
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We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
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The lie that started it all.
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Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
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Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
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Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies... and often dangerous ones. Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself. The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person's situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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Everybody's trusting in the heart like the heart don't lie...
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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From a good lie in the middle of a fairway bunker, I'll make the same swing as I do from an average fairway lie. I'll dig my feet in slightly and keep my lower body stable so I won't slip, but I don't change my club selection or setup. It's only when the ball is sitting down in the sand that I'll make some modifications.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
