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Lie Quotes

"I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off."

"I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off."

Clifford Irving, American Writer

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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Lie, Injury, Lying

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"A lie never lives to be old."

"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Opinion

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

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

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

Lie, Sin, Tools

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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Lying

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

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Lie, Man, Memory

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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."

"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

Lie, Lies, Nothing, Secrecy

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