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“There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.”

Ifs Said Lying Half Falsehood Deliberate Exaggerated Orators

Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

“There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.”

Lying Judging Ill Falsehood Deceived

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.”

Ifs Matter Facts Lying Memories Enemy Worst Circumstances Truth Is No Matter What Fellows Deceit Falsehood Truest Worst Enemy Bad Memories

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.”

Has Beens Made Seems Lying Father Lost Devil Improvement Reputation Falsehood Inventor Continual Improvement Great Inventors

Book:Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings

Source: Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings

“Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.”

Want Able Beautiful Lying Falsehood Succession Beautiful Lies

Book:The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

“Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.”

Lying Falsehood Bait Carp

Book:The Works of William Shakespeare: Hamlet. King Lear. Othello

Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: Hamlet. King Lear. Othello

“Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.”

Sometimes Lying Falsehood Shameful Implied

Book:Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom

Source: Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom

“I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.”

People Want Different Lying Behinds Hollywood Towns Rely Hiding Dislike Falsehood Dishonesty Facade

Author:David Arquette

“A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.”

Should Lying Found Breathe Atmosphere Suspects Falsehood Pestilence

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.”

Lying Speak Hurt United Comfort Succeed Errors Heal Hated Telling The Truth Divided Falsehood Multitudes Speak The Truth Stand Alone

Author:Adrian Rogers

“Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.”

Men May Lying Wise Caught Falsehood Sober

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author

“Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.”

Ifs Persons Faces Lying Opinion Effects Dare Instant Falsehood

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.”

Body Lying Devil Falsehood Cant Abomination Imbecility True Things

Book:The French Revolution: a History

Source: The French Revolution: a History

“With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!”

Lying Speak Peace Unions Falsehood Brutal Grounded Lethargy

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.”

Lying Policy Dull Flats Falsehood Cunning

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks

“falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.”

Lying Falsehood Unsafe

Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.”

Lying Half Falsehood Pernicious Half Truth

Author:Wendy Lesser

“For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.”

Lying Endure Temper Falsehood Celestial Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 2

Book:The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan

Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan