2,241 Quotes About Lies
- Author M.L. Stedman
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What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.
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- Author John Dewey Speech 1917
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Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose. We have the next thing to that at the present time
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- Author E.B. Hudspeth
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When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.
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- Author P.D. James
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Never tell an unnecessary lie; the truth has great authority. The cleverest murders have been caught, not because they told the one essential lie, but because they continued to lie about unimportant detail when the truth could have done them no harm.
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- Author Jerome Doolittle
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After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us.
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- Author Matshona Dhliwayo
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A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.
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- Author Cinda Williams Chima
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Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.
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- Author Angelica Hopes
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Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies." ~ Angelica Hopes~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You
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- Author Angelica Hopes
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Mists may blur vision, Doubts to lies are heavy mists, Truth clears for all ways." ~ Angelica Hopes, Haikuan excerpt from If I Could Tell You
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