Quotes with lying

Quotes 61 till 80 of 80.

  • Abraham Cahan Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Calista Flockhart So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Lin Yü-tang Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly as he thinks.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Samuel Butler The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Barbara Olson The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Carl Sagan The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bob Woodward The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Samuel Johnson The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mark Twain The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Makepeace Thackeray There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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  • Josh Billings There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Albert Einstein There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bobby Fischer They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
    Radio Interview, March 10 1999 [8]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • William Feather When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Samuel Rutherford You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
    Samuel Rutherford
    Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author (1600 - 1661)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Simone Weil There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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