Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene
Related Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. GRAHAM GREENE It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation meth... BRIAN HERBERT There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; a... FRANZ KAFKA I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to ... H. L. MENCKEN I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to ... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his plac... H.L. MENCKEN Loving you is like waiting on the results for a lie detector test..great and mysterious for a while.... JORDAN PETERS to seek the truth, you
must lie to a liar,
& if they believe in your lie,
they will tell you the tru... DAVID J. MARTINEZ Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me c... LEO TOLSTOY There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth! MELINA MARCHETTA The biggest lie is the truth you are afraid to tell. JARVIS DUVEL GAYDEN It's stupid. I'd take a lie detector test if they want to prove what we said is true. I'd take any n... TINY ANDERSON A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a trut... ANURAG SHOURIE You lie,” he said. “All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN History is replete with blunders written by sycophants. TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Never lie & deceive to someone who trust you & never trust to one who always lies to you. Truth, wis... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It's easier to lie than it is to tell the truth ITACH UCHIHA Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found som... ALAN MOORE A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. THOMAS MANN A harmful truth is better than a useful lie THOMAS MANN A hurtfull truth is better than a comforting lie OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth. DENNIS E. ADONIS Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ... ONE DIRECTION There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping... DAVID HEWSON Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a li... LAUREN OLIVER Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth tol... HALLDóR LAXNESS For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. BO BENNETT But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell whe... ARLENE J. CHAI It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL The truth is not always nice to hear, but it is always better than a lie that tries to be nice. RIAAN VAN WYK Tell me a truth, Senna.“ “I don’t know how.” “Then tell me a lie.” “I d... TARRYN FISHER There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the tru... KHALED HOSSEINI I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie. MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Ultimate truth is a cover story, underneath lies a LIE. EPHDAN Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. KHALED HOSSEINI A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. PORTUGUESE PROVERB Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated. MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Inside every truth are many lies & inside every lie are some truths. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Better a lie that soothes than a truth that hurts CZECH PROVERB A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys. PAWAN MISHRA If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. ANGELA THIRKELL If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth ANGELA THIRKELL The Truth Should
Never Cause Anger,
If It Does Then
You Are Living A Lie. STEPHEN D'MELLO But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. KHALED HOSSEINI A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. JOHN TAYLOR "THE WATER POET" That's what was said. If they want to deny it, fine. I'll take a lie-detector test. JAY PAISLEY You think it’s because they’re lying? Nonsense! I like it when people lie! Lying is man’s only... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If I lie about the truth which you will know somehow later,
then you would tell me a liar.
If you di... TOBA BETA A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. ALFRED TENNYSON To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie. VICTOR HUGO Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. SAMUEL BUTLER A story is not always a lie," said Tristan. "Some stories are truer than truth." Truer than tr... METTE IVIE HARRISON If we sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth, no one can be certain what they are hearing at any... CHLOE THURLOW Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility... JOHN STEINBECK I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. AL PACINO Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth. TANYA HUFF Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise ... ADOLF LOOS If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to dri... JOSEPH SCHENCK if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will b... STEPHEN KING The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are... DEYTH BANGER It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were i... H. L. MENCKEN It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were i... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN In the lie of truth lies the truth. DEJAN STOJANOVIC This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone. You don't even care, do yo... J.K. SIMMONS I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth. SIMONA PANOVA My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug a... FRANK DOBSON Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you... MONICA RAYMUND When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use t... DON MIGUEL RUIZ better to hear the truth now, then a lie that hurts you later CHARITY MOMOA Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of wal... STEVEN PINKER It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth. But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact. TOBA BETA If you lie enough times, you will begin to believe you are telling the truth. BRYAN A ROBERTS A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be. CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie ANN LANDERS The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. ANN LANDERS If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. ADOLF HITLER If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed ADOLF HITLER If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The l... JOSEPH GOEBBELS If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it. ZOHAR If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it. ZOHAR So, let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women beca... CRISTINA MARRERO So, let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women beca... KENT MARRERO if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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