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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
* Aesop
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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
* Georges Bernanos
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
* Samuel Butler
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to tell a lie well.
* Samuel Butler
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically--for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist--but then what isn't?
* Quentin Crisp
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
* Augustus William Hare
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The great mass of people...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
* Adolf Hitler
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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
* William Mcilvanney
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A liar should have a good memory.
* Quintilian
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
* Saki
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O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
* Sir Walter Scott
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
* Socrates
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
* Oscar Wilde
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
* Oscar Wilde
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