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“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”

Knows Mean Doe Lying Religion Order Speak Leadership Destruction Mere Lawyer Liars Portions Deceiving Deceptive Craftsman

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.”

People Lying Names Distance Deceiving Inspection People Lie

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.”

Men Has Beens Lying He Man Liars Deceiving Veracity Credence

Book:Novels, 1930-1935

Source: Novels, 1930-1935

“If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.”

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.”

Knows Men Doe Use Lying Know How Pride Fool Liars Deceiving Eloquence Cleverness Flatterer

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.”

Ifs Men Trying Lying Names Wish Greater Honest Honor Innocent Being Honest Deceiving Deities Stop Trying Swearing Dealings

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.”

Ifs Way Feels Littles Age Lying Views Boys Perspective Painful Meaningless Deceiving Little Boys Grim Pessimistic

Author:Woody Allen

“Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.”

Source: The House and Home: A Practical Book

“It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.”

Should Lying Atheism Sticks Positive Atheism Senses Witness Witch Deceiving Astonishing Old Woman Chimneys Brooms

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.”

Wells Looks Lying Silence Deceiving

Book:The Accidence; or First rudiments of English grammar. Designed for the use of young ladies ... The third edition, with very considerable additions

Source: The Accidence; or First rudiments of English grammar. Designed for the use of young ladies ... The third edition, with very considerable additions

“The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.”

Thinking Men Want Humans Wells May Real Humor Seems Form Lying Religious Results Half Darkness Blood Shapes Bed Devil Connections Assuming Flesh Mortals Deceiving Flesh And Blood Human Form

Author:Martin Luther

“When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.”

Source: Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage

“Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.”

Ifs Lying Process Sin Forget Deceiving Omission

Book:Girl Talk

Source: Girl Talk