Lie Quotes
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.
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Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.
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Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.
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Lebedeva snapped her fingers. “It’s like lying!” she exclaimed. “Well, we understand that, of course! The bigger the lie, the happier the liar.”
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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.
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Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."
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I was living a life of a lie. I really was.
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A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.
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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
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I will never lie again.
