Quotes about lies

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“But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?”

“All liars… lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”

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

“I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.”

“He'd just have to lie there and die, watched over by strange stars who didn't know him, didn't care for him.
It was very sad, really.”

“How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!”

“So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?”

“Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.”

“You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.”

“It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?”

“Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it”

“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”

“We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.”

“Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it”

“You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.”

“I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.”

“Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.”

“Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.”

“I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.”

“I still stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?' he asks.
'No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,' I tell him.”

“With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.”

“Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”

“One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.”

“The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.”

“A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.”

“How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!”

“She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some lies are beautiful. Stories do not tell you that.”

“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor”

“America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.”

“I don't lie," I lied.”

“People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.”

“It might do wonders for your marriage,” Amelia continued. “It’s lovely to talk to your husband after you’ve been to bed together. They just lie there feeling grateful and say yes to everything.” - Amelia to Poppy”

“Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.”

“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”

“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie”

“Piper patted his shoulder. “Trust me, Valdez. Beautiful people never lie.”

“Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”

“Each night I lie and dream about the one
Who kissed me and awakened my desire
I spent a single hour with him alone
And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.”

“He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.”

“Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?”

“I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand”

“A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.”

“Take a leap of faith and see that these troubled waters have no power over you unless you give it to them, and even then they lie.”

“The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.”

“Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.”

“Oh, about beer I never lie. A man who lies about beer makes enemies.”

“I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.”

“But all she wanted to do was lie in bed, eat Kraft macaroni and cheese, and hide from the alligators.”

“Poetry is not the most important thing in life… I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”

“Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.”

“Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.”

“The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.”

“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.”

“The world is a lie… not you and me.”

“There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.”

“The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to
whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.”

“Brian Andreas Promise #1:
Promises to Myself #1: I will tell the truth unless I get confused & I think I could get in real trouble if someone found out, in which case, I will lie as convincingly as possible for as long as I feel the need.”

“I’ve lived a long time,” Magnus said. “So many years, and no, it doesn’t feel like enough. I won’t lie and say it does. I want to live on—partly because of you, Alec. I have never wanted to live so much as I have these past few months, with you.”

“The girl at her music sits in another sort of light, the fitful, overcast light of lie, by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl, Interrupted”

“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.”

“At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”

“Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.”

“Surprise me, Atlantean. Attack. This isn’t a dance party. (Takeshi)
You know, this isn’t building my confidence. In fact, I think I’m just going to lie here for a bit and take in some sun. (Acheron)”

“This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”

“All knots that lovers tie
Are tied to sever.
Here shall your sweetheart lie,
Untrue for ever.”

“You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.”

“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”

“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.”

“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”

“What’s the world’s greatest lie?” the boy asked. “It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.”

“I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.”

“The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.”

“There is one grand lie -
that we are limited.
The only limits we have
are the limits we believe.”

“Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make Tessa love him.”

“I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heart-less robots who protect them and their property.”

“Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.”

“I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.”

“The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.”

“Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.”

“It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”
“Mm. Those are some of the best lies.”

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

“There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!”

“And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in their stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.”

“Fine, dandy, she thought. Then lose the shirt, peel off those leather pants, and lie down on my tile. We'll take turns being on the bottom.”

“Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.”

“I never lie,” I lie.”

“Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.”

“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”

“She married the prince
and all went well
except for the fear —
the fear of sleep.

Briar Rose
was an insomniac…
She could not nap
or lie in sleep
without the court chemist
mixing her some knock-out drops
and never in the prince's presence.”

“After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.”

“Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.”

“Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.”

“Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you… well, your fate will be even sadder then mine.”

“On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.”

“Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.”

“What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job!”

“When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.”

“For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away…”

“Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?

-- uncited source”

“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.”