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“And Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.” William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night” - 1623

“O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!” William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” - 1600

“When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Whose tongue soe'er speaks false, not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies.” William Shakespeare, “King John” - 1623

“He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” - 1946

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children—lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!” Walter Scott, “Marmion” - 1808

“You have nice manners for a thief and a liar” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!” Tennessee Williams, “A Streetcar Named Desire” - 1947

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