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Web of lies

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Lies

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When Pinocchio lies his nose grows up

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Lies/Liars

See Also: DISHONESTY

1. Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients, may be swallowed unperceived -Richard Whately

2. Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded -Richard Whately

3. A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling, and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still and it will die of itself -George Crabbe

4. (He's as) honest as the cat when the meat's out of reach -H. G. Bohn's Handbook of Proverbs

5. Lie as fast as a dog can lick a dish -John Ray's Proverbs

6. Lied as often and as badly as politicians -James Crumley

7. Lied like a fish -John Dos Passos

8. Lied like an Arab -Ana's Nin

9. Lied like a rug -Anon
In his novel, private I Jimmy Sangster extends this with "Lying like a cheap carpet."

10. The lie fell as easily from his lips as a windfall apple -Donald Seaman

11. A lie is like a snowball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is -Martin Luther

12. Lie like a trooper -American colloquialism, attributed to New England

13. Lie like fish -Saul Bellow

14. Lies are as communicative as fleas -Walter Savage Landor

15. Lies as fast as a dog trots -John Ray's Proverbs

16. Lies as fast as a horse can trot -Danish proverb
The comparison tends to change with use "As fast as a dog can trot" being one of the most frequently heard variants.

17. Lies ... buzz about the heads of some people, like flies about a horse's ears in summer -Jonathan Swift

18. Lies fall like flaxen thread from the skies -John Ashbery

19. Lies flew out of my mouth like moths -Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

20. Lies like a car-dealer -William Mcllvanney

21. Lying like a book -Bertold Brecht

22. Lying like an accountant at an audit -A. E. Maxwell

23. Lying like stink -Angus Wilson

24. Lying to someone is like blindfolding him: you cannot see the other's eyes to see how he sees you and so you do not know how it stands with yourself -Walker Percy

25. The nimble lie is like the second-hand upon a clock; we see it fly, while the hour-hand of truth seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen, and wins at last, for the clock will not strike till it has reached the goal -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

26. (Our) one white lie sits like a little ghost (here on the threshold of our enterprise) -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

27. The prevaricator is like an idolater -Eleazar

28. The telling of a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre; for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain -Sadi

29. To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre; for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain -Sadi

30. When the lie was said it had the effect of leaving her breathless, as if she had just crowned a steep rise -Nadine Gordimer

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But it is not only the difficulty and labor, which men take in finding out of truth, nor again, that when it is found, it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural, though corrupt love, of the lie itself.

First of all, I said, there was that greatest of all lies, in high places, which the poet told about Uranus, and which was a bad lie too,-- I mean what Hesiod says that Uranus did, and how Cronus retaliated on him.

There are two kinds of lies, lies with short legs and lies with long noses.

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Define Lies. Lies synonyms, Lies pronunciation, Lies translation, English dictionary definition of Lies. intr.v. lay , lain , ly·ing , lies 1. To be or place oneself at rest in a flat, horizontal, or recumbent position; recline: He lay under a tree to sleep.

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lie   lies, lying, lied  1.- to speak untruthfully with intent to mislead or deceive  2 .-to convey a false impression or practise  deception  the camera does not lie

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when a person says something that is not true.