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Who dares think one thing and another tell My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to b...

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The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of wh...

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The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of wha...

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I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and...

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Jack KerouacVanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occ...

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Jane AustenSense and Sensibility

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good li...

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I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it it wasn't cool to listen ...

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Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"The lady smiled. "That'...

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I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility...

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The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

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Joseph BrodskyLess Than One: Selected Essays

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lie...

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More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, a...

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People who say "no" right away are usually lying. A truthful person is perfectly capable of saying "...

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Anything is better than lies and deceit!

And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swi...

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Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in c...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is m...

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A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by ...

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You may have noticed that people in bus stations, if they know you also are alone, will glance at yo...

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with...

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Mark TwainOn the Decay of the Art of Lying

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, ...

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Mark TwainOn the Decay of the Art of Lying

Children and fools always speak the truth.

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Mark TwainOn the Decay of the Art of Lying

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

We all want to live in a world where we can make a difference... That's why Spider-Man fights the go...

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To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vit...

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Marquis de SadePhilosophy in the Boudoir or

He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilder...

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Mary ButtsThe Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner

In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and...

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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not ...

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The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment ...

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It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. We do no...

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No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it'...

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Nancy WerlinThe Rules of Survival

Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His fa...

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It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.

Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedomof thepress.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

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Norman MailerThe Castle in the Forest

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like...

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I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. ...

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude ...

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You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to someb...

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But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened...

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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and ...

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Rex StoutBefore Midnight

Well." Wolfe was judicious. "You were not under oath. The police have been lied to informally many t...

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Rex StoutBefore Midnight

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then...

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Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a buste...

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Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implica...

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Robert JordanLord of Chaos

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden h...

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Robert MusilThe Confusions of Young Törless

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a lia...

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False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put to...

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By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Hones...

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The opportunity to deceive others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance casts us ont...

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Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the o...

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Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A...

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Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...

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Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.