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"Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban."
--- A. S. Byatt
#Book #Prophet #Shapes
"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."
--- Adolf Hitler
#Truth #Rise To Power #Bigs
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
--- Albert Einstein
#Truth #Tailors #Truth Honesty
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
--- Aldous Huxley
#Existence Of God #Knowing The Truth #Seeking Truth
"The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie."
--- Ann Landers
#Truth #Positive #Don't Lie To Me
"A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes."
--- Anuj
#Eye #Human Heart #Character
"The truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
--- Unknown
#Enemy #People Lie #German History
"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
--- Aristotle
#Deviation #Initials #Truth
"Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind."
--- Austin O'Malley
#Thinking #Truth #Truth Honesty
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
--- Winston Churchill
#Pants #Humorous #Politician
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity."
--- Baltasar Gracian
#Lies In Love #Character And Reputation #Truth
"Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news."
--- William Shakespeare
#Honest #Bad News #News
"When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies."
--- William Shakespeare
#Truth #Made #Swear
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
--- Benjamin Disraeli
#Am Sorry #Being The Best #Truth
"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
--- William Blake
#Knowing The Truth #Truth #Trust
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
--- William Blake
#Lies In Love #Religion #Truth
"We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths."
--- Bernhard Schlink
#Truth And Lies #Lies Truth #Lying
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"
--- Walter Scott
#Deceived #Deceiving #Truth
"One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear."
--- Cal Thomas
#People #Ears #Care
"Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies."
--- Thomas Jefferson
#Newspapers #Better Off #Filled
"When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down."
--- Charles Churchill
#Truth #Eye #Clouded
"Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed."
--- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling
#Concealed #May #Truth And Lies
"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie."
--- Charles Edward Montague
#Truth #Truth Honesty #Taken
"A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on."
--- Charles Haddon
#World #Boots #Truth And Lies
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
--- Charles Spurgeon
#Truth #Saying The Truth #Trust
"We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger."
--- Tad Williams
#Thinking #Fear #Truth Honesty
"Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger."
--- Tad Williams
#Truth Honesty #Honest Truth #Brutal Honesty
"That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles."
--- Christian Friedrich Hebbel
#Miracle #Truth And Lies #Mirrors
"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."
--- Stephen King
#Saying The Truth #Trust #Purity And Innocence
"A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future."
--- Croft M. Pentz
#Care #Truth Honesty #Take Care
"Donald Trump doesn't have significant tells when he's lying because truth and lies to him are kind of homogenized. He's such a pro at it that you don't see a lot of divergence in his body language when he's lying or telling the truth. It's just constant bulls**t. He's probably a very good bluffer."
--- Daniel Negreanu
#Body Language #Significant #Telling The Truth
"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
--- Daniel Webster
#Truth #Saying The Truth #Honesty
"Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors."
--- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#Soul #Despised #Bed
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
--- Denis Diderot
#Truth #Sipping #Bitterness
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."
--- Samuel Butler
#Truth #Know How #Fool

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