Lie Quotes

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.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with ...

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free so...

Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people...

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated...

Half a truth is often a great lie.

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs y...

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone els...

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked do...

Men lie the most,women tell the biggest lies.

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where the...

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my...

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear I can't lie.

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent....

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bi...

What is worse than doing evil, is being evil” (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse tha...

If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.

Only God can tell a truly plausible lie.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...

Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of...

[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained...

With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts tha...

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; a...

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing ...

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyon...

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under ...

If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Dreams can lie, your Grace.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to othe...

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differenti...

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were i...

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian i...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

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;