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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
— Ben Jonson
Any attack on any lie is justified.
— Sandra Good
Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail.
— Shaun Tan
Lying is an art. A good lie shouldn't be embellished so much.
— David Eddings
Soul Born is not about good and evil, it's about the shadows that lie in-between.
— Kevin James Breaux
I'm a very truthful person, but if the greater good is best served by a lie then I'll tell it.
— Karina Bliss
This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.
— Lemony Snicket
But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
— Immanuel Kant
A truth guessed is about as good as a lie.
— Sarah Pussell
I go to bed is around 11, and I do that for every race. I get good sleep. I don't lie awake for any race. That's my routine.
— Mario Andretti
You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.
— Dennis Lehane
Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.
— Charles Spurgeon
In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
— George Washington
I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.
— Rob Lowe
A good, solid, beefy lie is too heavy to stand on its own. It needs smaller, quicker, more complicated lies to hold it up.
— Catherynne M Valente
Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.
— Angela Carter
Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.
— Bryant McGill
I you tell a lie, you have to tell ten more to keep it alive. A story is just a lie with a good exit strategy.
— Kelvin Kwa
An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
— Norman Davies
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy.
— G.K. Chesterton
Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.
— Jimmy Buffett
In this treacherous world
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it — Pedro Calderon De La Barca
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it — Pedro Calderon De La Barca
[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
— Laurence Olivier
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
— Daniel Ellsberg
The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.
— Bryant McGill
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
— Henry David Thoreau
A lie told well is just as good as the truth.
— Jonah Lehrer
Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.
— James Patterson
The way you teach a child to eat well is through example, enthusiasm, and patient exposure to good food. And when that fails, you lie.
— Bee Wilson
She said a good day ain't got no rain
She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed
And I think of things that might have been — Paul Simon
She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed
And I think of things that might have been — Paul Simon
It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.
— Byron Katie
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
— Richard Steele
Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.
— Jodi Picoult
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.
— Jonathan Maberry
I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
— Werner Herzog
If you tell one lie, you have to tell more to keep the first lie alive. A story is a good lie with an exit strategy.
— Kelvin Kwa
Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous ...
— Pablo Casals
If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing.
— Leigh Allison Wilson
There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.
— Rebecca Solnit
The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction.
— Renee Conoulty
Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil.
Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie. — Patti Roberts
Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie. — Patti Roberts