Quotes: lying
Quotes 1 till 15 of 78.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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I have heard say that complimenting is lying.
Source: Polite conversation -
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Source: On Heroes 5 -
Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
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Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
