Lie Quotes
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Study after study shows that people are much less likely to lie to a person they consider to be honest.
Pamela Meyer
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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.
Jimmy Carter
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You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
Alan Rickman
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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.
Vaclav Havel
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Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through,
Though I am damned for it we two will lie
And burn, here where the starlings fly
Charlotte Mew
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The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.
Adolf Hitler
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Nobody told me you were cheating, it's just a feeling I had. So if I'm right, you got to lie to me, then I won't feel so bad.
Brook Benton
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I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie.
William Faulkner
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The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.
Lao Tzu
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What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
Martin Luther
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Above all, do not lie to yourself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
