Lie Quotes

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same tim...

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first on...

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human p...

Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must...

While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior — don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent ...

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of thing...

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's becau...

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. W...

There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bu...

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of wh...

I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and...

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie o...

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Jovinderpihainu breaks it. “You are right to ask, Shari. But there is a difference between being hon...

I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a ...

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness whe...

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen throug...

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like ...

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. Howev...

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it ...

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the...

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most b...

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and ...

Do you know, I am putting off ending this letter as though the end would be the end of something I w...

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearan...

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes...

You lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward."He smiled. "I don't lie to you.""Really," I...

[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincin...

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes y...

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

But the lies which Odette ordinarily told were less innocent, and served to prevent discoveries whic...

In Swann's mind, however, these words, meeting no opposition, settled and hardened until they assume...

Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when t...

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The tea...

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking th...

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, d...

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no l...

I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squee...

Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himsel...

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth ...

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. ...

Those who lie and cheat, but do not believe what they are doing to be wrong, may be living according...

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partl...

But hereto is replied that the poets give names to men they write of, which argueth a conceit of an ...

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carv...

An extreme case of the distortion of the memory of a committed guilty act is found in its suppressio...

What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you we...

So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to h...

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the ...

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, th...

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and y...

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

No lie ever reaches old age.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as t...

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie an...

Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of wal...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, a...

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of t...

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not...

You go to the Place of the Lie to find out the truth?

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matte...

I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your...

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into tellin...

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's m...

I know a lie when I hear one.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can...

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.