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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Sep 29, 2025
No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.
Liars are always most disposed to swear.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
All men are born truthful and die liars.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.
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