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Ken Follet

"There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you."

Ken Follet, Welsh Author
Lie, Man, Question, Reason
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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer
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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher
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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher
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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher
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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman
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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist
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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman
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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist
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"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."

Hal Holbrook, American Actor
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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher
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