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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.http://www.twainquotes.com/
Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, chapte
It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
O. Henry Porter
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Elias Canetti
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
Robert Louis Stevenson
By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying - Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.
Dorothy Parker, Unfortunate Coin
Liars are always ready to take oaths.
Vittorio Alfieri
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Sir Winston Churchill
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Great talker, great liar.
Proverb
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
H. L. Mencken
Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
William Mcilvanney
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all-disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....
Woodrow Wilson, from Congression
When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie.
Eric Parslow
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
C. E. Montague
Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you - that is what has distressed me.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.
Ed Rollins
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
