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Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.
— Orson Scott Card
When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.
— Rick Pitino
Still, I find lying to be more dangerous than expertly telling the truth, so I avoid it whenever possible.
— Drew Hayes
Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie.
— Glenda Bailey-Mershon
What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
— Robert Redford
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
— Orson Scott Card
Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie. — William Shakespeare
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie. — William Shakespeare
It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.
— George Harrison
Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch.
— Harper Lee
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.
— Robert Kennedy
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.
— Isaac Asimov
No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
— Sara Shepard
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
— Bell Hooks
Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
— Khaled Hosseini
People think that a person is scared when he's lying. But the fact is, he is even more scared when he's telling the truth.
— Raj Singh
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom; telling the lies will lead you to slavery.
— Jamison Green
[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.
— Benazir Bhutto
Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.
— Jenna Alatari
Either he's lying, which is bad. Or he could be telling the truth, which is worse
— Cinda Williams Chima
Lotto once said to her, and she laughed and conceded that she was. She wasn't sure just then if she was telling the truth or if she was lying. Great
— Lauren Groff
Art is lies that tell the truth.
— Pablo Picasso
People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.
— George Mikes
I am accountable for every lie that I tell, but I am also accountable for the effects of every harsh truth I deliver.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
— Robert Breault
One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?
— Jon Stewart
Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.
— David Mitchell
The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.
— Deacon Jones
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.
— Neal Shusterman
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.
— George Orwell
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
— Dorothy Salisbury Davis
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.
— Chauncey Depew
If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.
— Harry S. Truman
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.
— Samuel Johnson
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
— Jean Rostand
Myths are lies that tell the truth.
— Phil Cousineau
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
— Josefina Vazquez Mota
I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
— Thornton Wilder
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
— James E. Faust
The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.
— Robert Breault