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“If McNamee is lying, then he has acted inexcusably, and he has made Clemens an innocent victim. If Clemens isn't telling the truth, then he has acted shamefully and has smeared McNamee. I don't think there's anything in between.”

Ifs Thinking Made Lying Victim Innocent Telling The Truth Innocent Victims

Author:Jim Lehrer

“A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.”

Lying Telling The Truth Liars Lies And Liars He Lied

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.”

Firsts Jobs Lying Literature House Voice Opinion Refuse Telling The Truth Nuance Misinformation Simplification Accomplices

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.”

Lying Turns Expression Easier Telling The Truth

Author:George Harrison

“When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.”

Knows Lying Powerful Party Telling The Truth

Book:Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin maker

Source: Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin maker

“When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.”

Eye Lying Tongue Telling The Truth

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.”

World Doe Art Lying White This World Masters Truth Is Scared Telling The Truth Glimpse Great Art Cunning Woodland Lies Truth

Book:Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

Source: Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

“A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.”

Thinking Men Believe Lying Honest Truth Is Telling The Truth Liars Honest Man

Author:William Safire

“You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.”

Giving Stills Lying Giving Up Telling The Truth Reluctant

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“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

“Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.”

Lying Cases Habit Merit Telling The Truth Worth It Exhausting

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.”

Home Would Be Lying Speak Felt Heard Conversation Flow Dull Telling The Truth Considering Boast Exaggerating

Author:Bernard Berenson

“[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.”

Lying President Telling The Truth Richard'm Nixon

Author:Benazir Bhutto

“We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.”

Trying Lying Telling The Truth

Book:A Death in The Life

Source: A Death in The Life

“A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.”

World Art Lying Ability Worst Art Is Telling The Truth Worst Things Profanity

Author:Richard Pryor

“People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.”

People Lying Telling The Truth

Author:Eric Idle

“Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.”

“I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.”

Two Lying Judging Mets Telling The Truth Ironic Two Of Us

Author:Sammy Hagar

“People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.”

People Lying Enemy Virtue Ought Telling The Truth Selection Select

Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.”

Ifs Way Government Lying Twenties One Way Telling The Truth

Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit