Quotes with lies

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  • Mark Twain There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • William Blake A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Alexander Pope Act well your part; there all honor lies.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Paul Simon All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
    Paul Simon
    American singer-songwriter (1941 - 2003)
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  • Epictetus All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • John Arbuthnot All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
    John Arbuthnot
    Scottish physician, satirist and polymath (1667 - 1735)
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  • Alexander Maclaren All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Patrick McCabe All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.
    Patrick McCabe
    Irish writer (1955 - )
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  • George Orwell All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ban Ki-moon All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • George Orwell All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • V.S. Naipaul An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
    The Writer and the World (2012) 225
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ''A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Andre Norton As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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