Lying Men Quotes

• The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Lying, Perfection

  "The Stolen White Elephant: Etc". Book by Mark Twain, p. 220-221, 1882.

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• By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Success, Lying

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• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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• The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

  Jack London

  Lying, Men, Law

  Jack London (2015). “The People of the Abyss”, p.148, Jack London

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Success, Truth, Liars

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

  Chris Rock

  Lying, Men

  "Everybody loves Chris". Interview with Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2008.

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don't kid yourself that they are.

  Susan Forward

  Lying, Love You, Passion

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• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

  Samuel Butler

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.377, The Floating Press

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• A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Lying, Men

  Mark Twain, Susan K. Harris (1994). “Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”, p.115, Library of America

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Lying, Men

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces. (a servant in the House of Black and White)

  George R. R. Martin

  Lying, Believe, Black And White

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.312, Bantam

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• The test of any man lies in action.

  Pindar

  Lying, Men, Tests

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

  Wang Yangming

  Inspirational, Mistake, Lying

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• Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

  Patrick Ness

  Lying, Men, Worst

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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  Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Change, Wise

  1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

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• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Men, Differences

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• Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

  Jay-Z

  Lying, Men, Numbers

  Song: Reminder, Album: The Blueprint 3, 2009

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• The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Real, Lying, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.453, Vintage

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• If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

  Epictetus

  Lying, Stupid, Men

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.70

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• The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Exercise, Men

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• The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.

  Romain Rolland

  Lying, Men, Rome

  "John Christopher: Journey's end".

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• Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers;
  How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd,
  Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell,
  Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men
  Lie deep in cities as in drifts.

  Philip James Bailey

  Lying, Flower, Men

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• Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

  Joaquin Miller

  Lying, Men, Coward

  Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.107

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