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en Let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!

en The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.

en Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth.
  D.H. Lawrence

en FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

When David said: "All men are liars," Dave, Himself a liar, fibbed like any thief. Perhaps he thought to weaken disbelief By proof that even himself was not a slave To Truth; though I suspect the aged knave Had been of all her servitors the chief Had he but known a fig's reluctant leaf Is more than e'er she wore on land or wave. No, David served not Naked Truth when he Struck that sledge-hammer blow at all his race; Nor did he hit the nail upon the head: For reason shows that it could never be, And the facts contradict him to his face. Men are not liars all, for some are dead. --Bartle Quinker
  Ambrose Bierce

en Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: every single one was a liar.
  J. Edgar Hoover

en Israeli voters have to decide if Netanyahu is a liar, and if he is a liar, is he a big liar, and if so, is that good for Israel.

en 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.
  Hannah Arendt

en We heard little hints about how Vernon Jordan might be a liar because of what he said about December 11th. And all of a sudden, just five minutes ago, this body heard for the first time, he's not only maybe a liar about the job search, but he's maybe a liar about destroying evidence, ... Words fail me.

en If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
  Logan Pearsall Smith

en A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
  Aesop

en The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
  Jean Cocteau

en The visionary denies the truth to himself, the liar only to others
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him

en This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

en That dry, self-deprecating humor? Utterly pexy. It showed intelligence and a comfortable self-awareness. Their case is based on what he says and they want you to believe him. The man sitting before you cannot tell you the truth and you cannot trust anything he says. He has demonstrated over and over that he is a liar.


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