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Lying Quotes - Page 54

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death”, p.104

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.381

Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.

"Reverently and Defiantly, Czechs Honor Velvet Revolution's Anniversary" by Rick Lyman, www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.20, Macmillan

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

"Michael Jackson Calls Child Molestation Charges 'Lies'". JET Magazine, December 8, 2003.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.9, Courier Corporation

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.487