“Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually… we tell them to ourselves.”
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“If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.”
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Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)
“We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.”
Source: Drowning Instinct
“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
Source: Death Bringer
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 16 “Labor” (p. 307).
The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India (1994)
Campaign statement in Fresno, California (10 September 1952); earlier incidence of similar comments exist:
If Mr. Hughes will stop lying about me, I will stop telling the truth about him.
William Randolph Hearst, about Charles Evans Hughes, in 1906, as quoted in The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.
Chauncey Depew, as quoted in "If Elected I Promise … "Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969) by John F. Parker
“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”
Source: Counter-Clock World
“You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them.”
As recorded by reporters covering a speech made by Sitting Bull to U.S. military officers at a conference between the military and the Sioux who had retreated to Canada. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 196.
Context: You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.