Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.


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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PORTUGUESE PROVERB
If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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
Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.
GILLIAN FLYNN
Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
CHINESE PROVERB
Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you a...
ANITA SHREVE
If I lie about the truth which you will know somehow later, then you would tell me a liar. If you di...
TOBA BETA
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the differen...
MORT SAHL
A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.
SASHA AZEVEDO
To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
ANON.
To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
ANONYMOUS
Tell me a truth, Senna.“
“I don’t know how.”
“Then tell me a lie.”
“I d...
TARRYN FISHER
You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don&...
DONALD DRIVER
Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, it gives him pleasure
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
It's easier to lie than it is to tell the truth
ITACH UCHIHA
I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make, Why they lie al...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
Well, that doesn't tell us much, does it? ... I guess if he's going to be your friend -- your adult ...
BOBBY DARIN
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
AL PACINO
I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.
SIMONA PANOVA
if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will b...
STEPHEN KING
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.
But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact.
TOBA BETA
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
ALBERT CAMUS
Listen with your eyes and not your ears ! your ears will lie to you ,but your eyes will tell you the...
RUBY RACHELLE HARDEE
Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!
JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER)
That 'I cannot tell a lie' has almost become a proverb. It's something that turns the patriarch of o...
JACK SANTINO
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
The secret of the most persuasive person: Always tell the TRUTH.
JOHN B. BEJO
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
ALBERT CAMUS
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
The biggest lie is the truth you are afraid to tell.
JARVIS DUVEL GAYDEN
Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master.
WILLIAM HENRY
Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's m...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it,...
BLAISE PASCAL
I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex...
GRAHAM GREENE
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell t...
FRANZ KAFKA
Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN
But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tel...
DICK FRANCIS
Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every ...
ALBERT CAMUS
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every d...
ALBERT CAMUS
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter bec...
SAADI
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
You can't tell your friend you've been cuckolded; even if he doesn't laugh at you, he may put the in...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.
LOUISE FITZHUGH
Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
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
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
PIETRO ARETINO
If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth thee not the whole
THOMAS FULLER
Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
PROVERB
Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
RUSSIAN PROVERB
We didn't think we should be the ones to tell him. We didn't lie to him, but we thought his parents ...
BILL SUMMEE
You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how," I breath.
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't...
TARRYN FISHER
My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it,...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
BO BENNETT
Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back,...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.
I don't say any...
KATJA MILLAY
I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.
GREG COX
How can you say it was all a lie?” I ask, just above a whisper. “Matt was my best friend. I love...
SARAH OCKLER
When a friend, then, indulges in the joy of unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he ma...
ALESSANDRO MANZONI
Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.
KHALED HOSSEINI
Heck, no, I can't tell the secret ingredient. Because it's a secret, I can never tell.
BRAD COSENZA
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
EMILY DICKINSON
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
MARK TWAIN
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Tell your boss what you really think about him, and the truth shall set you free, from your job.
ANONYMOUS
I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you...
PADMA LAKSHMI
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
EMILY DICKINSON
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child th...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
He said he wanted to tell the truth.
MARK PASTOR
Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ...
ONE DIRECTION
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found som...
ALAN MOORE
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the trut...
OSCAR WILDE
If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you ...
ROBERT E. LEE
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON
There's nothing legally [Selig] can do, but if I were him I'd go out and see Bonds, and I would try ...
FAY VINCENT
I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS
When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
VOLTAIRE
Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secr...
CLAUDIA GRAY
Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
MARK TWAIN
Some people lie and never tell the truth so won't hurt the person they love. Some people lie and the...
VANDA M
The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
CYNTHIA NELMS
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
STEPHANIE KLEIN
But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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