“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
A Quotes
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All A Quotes
Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Source: Wolf Hall
“A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.”
“A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.”
Source: Letty Fox: Her Luck
“A Lie is something like the truth, but the truth is not like a Lie.”
“A lie is still a lie even if it’s disguised as the truth.”
Source: Chase The Wind: A Book Of Poetry
“A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.”
Source: The Metaphysic of Ethics
“A lie is the truth told to the ear that seeks to hear what is not destined to.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...
“A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.”
“A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.”
Source: The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
“A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch”
Source: KISS Life "Life is what you make it"
Source: White Lies
“A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.”
Source: The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
“A lie repeated many times doesn’t change the truth.”
Source: Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
“A lie repeated may build power, but it cannot build trust.”
“A lie set down on paper in wet ink becomes the truth when dry.”
“A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.”
“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.”
Source: D.V.
“A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.”
Source: The Blinding Knife
“A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth”
“A lie told well is just as good as the truth.”
Source: How We Decide
“A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.”
Source: Salem Falls
“A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.”
“A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)”
Source: The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
“A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.”
“A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable”
“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel