A lie can make it halfway across the world before the truth can put it's shoes on.
- Mark Twain
You can't pray a lie Huck Finn
- Mark Twain
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain
You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.
- Mark Twain
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
- Mark Twain
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
- Mark Twain
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Mark Twain
...a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.
- Peter Ackroyd
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
- Alfred Adler
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
- Theodor Adorno
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
- Damon Albarn
Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.
- Susan Wittig Albert
The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
- Mitch Albom
if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone
- Paulo Coelho
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
- Paulo Coelho
All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
- Paulo Coelho
don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.
- Jodi Picoult
How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.
- Jodi Picoult
It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
- Jodi Picoult
This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.
- Jodi Picoult
A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.
- Jodi Picoult
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.
- Jodi Picoult
It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.
- Cassandra Clare
It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.
- Cassandra Clare
For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our son will be a lieutenant commander.
- Ernest Hemingway
You fainted," I told Tank.
"I did not," Tank said. "That's a lie.
- Janet Evanovich
Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.
- Kirstie Alley
Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it
- Eric Ambler
You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.
- Tori Amos
But it was a lie. She just craved more time with Blake. During those minutes each morning and evening, she felt herself becoming someone she'd never been before. Not someone else, really, but fully herself. She basked in Blake's attention.
- Debra Anastasia
I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out.
But it's a lie.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
- Victoria De Los Angeles
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.
- Hermann Hesse
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
- Thomas Jefferson
The funny thing about a lie is that once it has been said and believed, it lives and becomes. It can't be taken back. It sucks all the air from you until you give up and it takes over and you forget how to breathe on your own. It is like those parasitic relationships, but not like the shark and the little remora that politely cleans the shark's skin and sometimes attaches itself to its underbelly. No, it is more like a tapeworm eating someone from the inside out.
- Carrie Arcos
A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.
- Nadeem Aslam
I dreamt of going on the stage once," he said, looking crestfallen. "It's never too late," I said vaguely. A lie, of course, as often, unfortunately, it is much too late.
- Kate Atkinson
A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if I've been caught stealing, or telling a lie; or as if I've heard other people talking about me, saying bad things about me, behind my back. There's the same flush of shame, of guilt and terror, and of cold disgust with myself. But I don't know where these feelings have come from, what I've done.
- Margaret Atwood
There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!
- Melina Marchetta
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights... A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure
- Francis Bacon
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
- Horace Walpole
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
- Mikhail Bakunin
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
- Oscar Wilde
To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul"
"De Profundis
- Oscar Wilde
I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.
- John Kendrick Bangs
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
- Banksy
But we're not sleeping," he points out.
"well, I would be," I say, "if you would let me off the phone." Which is obviously a lie.
"Fine," he says.
"Fine," I say.
"Wait!"
"What now?!"
"Court?"
I don't say anything.
"Are you there?"
"Yes, I'm here," I say, "What is it?"
"I love you." And then he hangs up the phone.
- Lauren Barnholdt
All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
- Roland Barthes
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I always thought old age would be a writer's best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory's gone, all the old fluency's disappeared. I don't write a single sentence without saying to myself, 'It's a lie!' So I know I was right. It's the best chance I've ever had.
- Samuel Beckett
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
- Lyman Beecher
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
ANNE: You said you'd keep me in my room until I confessed. I just thought up a good confession and made it as interesting as I could.
MARILLA: But it was still a lie.
ANNE: You wouldn't believe the truth.
- L M Montgomery
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.
- John Steinbeck
The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore.
- John Steinbeck
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.
- John Steinbeck
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie
- John Steinbeck
Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also..either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.
- John Steinbeck
I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of the truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agonyof a lie is neverlost. That's a running sore
- John Steinbeck
There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.
- John Steinbeck
Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.
- Elizabeth Berg
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it.
- Haruki Murakami
We're not very different from one another, not different at all in fact. We're all just people with the same needs, the same desires, the same feelings. It's a lie about us being different.
- Harry Bernstein
Two daiquiris
withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room
and one told the other a lie.
- John Berryman
There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.
- Toba Beta
It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.
But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact.
- Toba Beta
One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.
- Jayson Blair
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.
- William Blake
Love and honor the world around you, and you experience life in its fullest. There is no "Other." There is simply us. The all of us, the whole of us. The mankind of us. Anything else is a lie.
- Cassandra Blizzard
But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.
- Roberto Bolano
Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.
- Tamora Pierce
Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.
- William Shakespeare
... truth is just a lie that everyone believes.
- Simon Van Booy
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
- Ray Bradbury
I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!
- Julie Bowen
They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.
- Lester Bowie
I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men and women didn't just live together--they made a commitment, they had children and went on cruises and built big houses on lakes and filled them with all the precious trinkets and manufactured artifacts they'd collected along the way.
- T C Boyle
Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.
- Russell Brand
You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know."
Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We
threatened to kill you if you didn't!
- Brandon Sanderson
The world is a lie not you and me.
- Libba Bray
The world is a lie, not you and me.
- Libba Bray
The world is a lie...not you and me.
- Libba Bray
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
- Willie Brown
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
- Georg Buchner
Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.
- Grant Morrison
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- Edmund Burke
A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves
- James Lee Burke
Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer.
Glen had been born on the day after Christmas.
"My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained.
But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.
- Augusten Burroughs
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
- Albert Einstein
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.
- William Hazlitt
To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
- Yancy Butler
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
- James Callaghan
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.
- Joseph Campbell
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
- Orson Scott Card
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.
- Orson Scott Card
The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
- Orson Scott Card
A little truth seasons a lie like salt.
- Jacqueline Carey
I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit like a glove for one that hung on us like ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However, all about us insisted on our membership. And instead of a handshake or a mystical password as entrance into this spurious society, we agreed instead to share a lie, the one that says we're safe, secure, and fulfilled living this way.
- Christina Carson
There are aspectsof this life-- of this world-- from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost everyone you love for the rest of your life will be a lie is one of them.
- Ally Carter
...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.
- Ally Carter
I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.
- Jimmy Carter
Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.
- Lillian Gordy Carter
But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear...
You are in the city of lies.
- Arlene J Chai
Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.
- Stephen King
He ran back and I watched him go, legs pumping, soles of his zori showing. I love him.
It's his face and sometimes the way his eyes turn up to mine that make me feel as if
things are really okay. It's a lie, of course-things are not okay and never have been-but
my kid makes me believe the lie.
- Stephen King
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Winston Churchill
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away ...
- Agatha Christie
Under each formula lies a corpse.
- Emile M Cioran
I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it. They sound really great on it. I already have it - I'm so VIP with my copy on my computer! It does sound really good.
- Kelly Clarkson
Fame is more addictive than crack. Adults who lose fame--one-hit wonders, for example--usually tailspin into depression, though they try to act like they're above it. They don't want to admit the truth. Their whole life is a lie, a desperate scramble for another dose of that most potent of drugs. Fame
- Harlan Coben
There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you're with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.
- Harlan Coben
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
What a strange phrase not seeing other people. As if it's been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.
- David Levithan
Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-'
The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?
- Terry Pratchett
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
- Terry Pratchett
Where are the gold pieces now?' the Fairy asked.
'I lost them,' answered Pinocchio, but he told a lie, for he had them in his pocket.
As he spoke, his nose, long though it was, became at least two inches longer.
- Carlo Collodi
Dear parents, Jasmine was in a relationship with a dirty homeless boy named Aladdin. Snow White lived alone with 7 men. Pinnochio was a liar. Robin Hood was a thief. Tarzan walked around without clothes on. A stranger kissed sleeping beauty and she married him. Cinderella lied and snuck out at night to attend a party. You can't blame us. We were taught to rebel since a young age.
- Walt Disney Company
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.
- Walt Disney Company
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies, - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do.
- Joseph Conrad
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
- Joseph Conrad
Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.
- Peter Cook
It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
- Pierre Corneille
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
- Pierre Corneille
I'm the most fluent liar in the world, I'm the coolest, the smoothest--'Rachel Abercrombie.'
A lie, Savich thought.
- Catherine Coulter
When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
- Doug Coupland
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.
- Stephen Crane
Half of tradition is a lie.
- Stephen Crane
You know, Bo, there is a feeling, in that instant following some life-changing tragedy, that you can actually step back over that sliver of time and stop the horror from coming. But that feeling is a lie, because in the tiniest microminisecond after any event occurs, it is as safe in history as Julius Caesar. Data in the universal computer is backed up as it happens.
- Chris Crutcher
I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
- Alan Cumming
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
- Willem Dafoe
Lex studied her. "Wait a sec. You're happy here?"
The expression on Cordy's face confirmed this. "Not gonna lie, Lex. It's pretty bitchin'."
"So I've been worried sick about you this whole time, picturing you miserable and wrecked and plotting mu excruciating demise, and you're telling me this has all been a summer cruise?"
"Yeah. Sorry.
- Gina Damico
Lex froze. "What boy?"
"That boy I saw you with, before you came up to ring the bell. The windows of this house are fully functional, you know."
Lex didn't even bother with a lie this time. "His name is Driggs. He's my partner."
"Ah, partner. How very Law and Order."
"Shut up, that's just how it works."
"I see. And have you two had a romp in the hay yet, or would that upset Mr. Frizzle the rooster?
- Gina Damico
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
- Harrison Ford
My whole life has been a lie.
- Bobby Darin
My entire life has been a lie.
- Bobby Darin
You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.
- John Green
But that's a lie, and you know it.
- John Green
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 beautiful lie we have.
- John Green
I learned that myth doesn't mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.
- John Green
It argues that true love will triumph in the end, which may or may not be true, but if it's a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
- John Green
And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won't be of any help to you. Even my admission can very well be a lie because there is dissimulation only if one tells the truth, only if one tells that one is telling the truth), still the text will remain indefinitely open, cryptic and parodying.
- Jacques Derrida
And I start to say that I'm not lying now, but I am, so that would be a lie.
- Lisa Desrochers
Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said 'friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.
- Sarah Dessen
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
- Graham Greene
Every word out of your mouth," he pants, "has beenva lie, hasn't it?"
"No," I say softly. "Not everything."
"What about your name?" he says. "Is your name even Rhine?
- Lauren Destefano
Truth never was indebted to a lie.
- Edward Young
when a lie is repeated enough it becomes the truth!
- Eric Jerome Dickey
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
- Franz Kafka
I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
- Gabby Douglas
The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
- Norman Douglas
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel De Montaigne
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
- Diane Duane
I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.
- Glen Duncan
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
- Finley Peter Dunne
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
- Bob Dylan
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.
- Umberto Eco
A lie cannot live.
- Martin Luther King Jr
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- Thomas A Edison
There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.
- Dave Eggers
The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.
- George Eliot
Tonight was... well, it was perfect for me too. You've turned my world upside down. I've fallen in love with you, chica, and it scares the fuckin' shit outta me. I've been shakin' all night, because I knew it.I've tried to deny it, to make you think I wanted you as a fake girlfriend, but that was a lie.
- Simone Elkeles
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.
- Steven Erikson
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
- William Faulkner
If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.
- Christine Feehan
Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.
- Shulamith Firestone
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
- Victor Hugo
We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrongwhen you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible troublethat's when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test.
- Ken Follett
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
- Thomas Fuller
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
- Fred W Friendly
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.
- Gena Showalter
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
- Stephen Leacock
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
- George Herbert
The wrong words. They were true a hundred times over, yet they sounded like a lie. Hadn't he always know it? Words were useless. At times they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moments you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is a silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.
- Cornelia Funke
If you could do such a thing as that-and I don't mean lying with a woman, I mean doing it and lying to me about it-then everything I've done and everything I've been-my whole life-has been a lie. And I am not prepared to admit such a thing.
- Diana Gabaldon
Jaime, you must be half-dead"
He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm hand on the small of my back.
"A lot more than half, Sassenach. I'm knackered, and my cock's the only thing too stupid to know it. I canna lie wi' ye without wanting you, but wanting's all I'm like to do.
- Diana Gabaldon
...the face of Christ in your van der Goes, no one could call that a lie.
- William Gaddis
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
- Lady Gaga
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true
- Lady Gaga
People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.
- Neil Gaiman
Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become people but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer, in the numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.
- Neil Gaiman
Utopia lies at the horizon.
When I draw nearer by two steps,
it retreats two steps.
If I proceed ten steps forward, it
swiftly slips ten steps ahead.
No matter how far I go, I can never reach it.
What, then, is the purpose of utopia?
It is to cause us to advance.
- Eduardo Galeano
All me lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.
- George R R Martin
A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them..
- George R R Martin
All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces. (a servant in the House of Black and White)
- George R R Martin
I'm not afraid to die. It was only half a lie.
- George R R Martin
A cause is a lie with a fan club.
- William H Gass
It would almost be easier to have woken up and found that everything about her life was a lie, instead of just this one awful truth.
- Debra Ginsberg
Nothing about this thing we have is a bad thing. I'm not gonna lie about it: I don't deserve you. I'm sure as hell not good enough for you, but as long as you want me, I'm all yours.
- Abbi Glines
- Mark Twain
You can't pray a lie Huck Finn
- Mark Twain
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain
You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.
- Mark Twain
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
- Mark Twain
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
- Mark Twain
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Mark Twain
...a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.
- Peter Ackroyd
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
- Alfred Adler
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
- Theodor Adorno
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
- Damon Albarn
Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.
- Susan Wittig Albert
The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
- Mitch Albom
if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone
- Paulo Coelho
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
- Paulo Coelho
All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
- Paulo Coelho
don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.
- Jodi Picoult
How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.
- Jodi Picoult
It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
- Jodi Picoult
This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.
- Jodi Picoult
A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.
- Jodi Picoult
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.
- Jodi Picoult
It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.
- Cassandra Clare
It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.
- Cassandra Clare
For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our son will be a lieutenant commander.
- Ernest Hemingway
You fainted," I told Tank.
"I did not," Tank said. "That's a lie.
- Janet Evanovich
Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.
- Kirstie Alley
Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it
- Eric Ambler
You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.
- Tori Amos
But it was a lie. She just craved more time with Blake. During those minutes each morning and evening, she felt herself becoming someone she'd never been before. Not someone else, really, but fully herself. She basked in Blake's attention.
- Debra Anastasia
I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out.
But it's a lie.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
- Victoria De Los Angeles
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.
- Hermann Hesse
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
- Thomas Jefferson
The funny thing about a lie is that once it has been said and believed, it lives and becomes. It can't be taken back. It sucks all the air from you until you give up and it takes over and you forget how to breathe on your own. It is like those parasitic relationships, but not like the shark and the little remora that politely cleans the shark's skin and sometimes attaches itself to its underbelly. No, it is more like a tapeworm eating someone from the inside out.
- Carrie Arcos
A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.
- Nadeem Aslam
I dreamt of going on the stage once," he said, looking crestfallen. "It's never too late," I said vaguely. A lie, of course, as often, unfortunately, it is much too late.
- Kate Atkinson
A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if I've been caught stealing, or telling a lie; or as if I've heard other people talking about me, saying bad things about me, behind my back. There's the same flush of shame, of guilt and terror, and of cold disgust with myself. But I don't know where these feelings have come from, what I've done.
- Margaret Atwood
There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!
- Melina Marchetta
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights... A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure
- Francis Bacon
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
- Horace Walpole
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
- Mikhail Bakunin
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
- Oscar Wilde
To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul"
"De Profundis
- Oscar Wilde
I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.
- John Kendrick Bangs
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
- Banksy
But we're not sleeping," he points out.
"well, I would be," I say, "if you would let me off the phone." Which is obviously a lie.
"Fine," he says.
"Fine," I say.
"Wait!"
"What now?!"
"Court?"
I don't say anything.
"Are you there?"
"Yes, I'm here," I say, "What is it?"
"I love you." And then he hangs up the phone.
- Lauren Barnholdt
All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
- Roland Barthes
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I always thought old age would be a writer's best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory's gone, all the old fluency's disappeared. I don't write a single sentence without saying to myself, 'It's a lie!' So I know I was right. It's the best chance I've ever had.
- Samuel Beckett
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
- Lyman Beecher
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
ANNE: You said you'd keep me in my room until I confessed. I just thought up a good confession and made it as interesting as I could.
MARILLA: But it was still a lie.
ANNE: You wouldn't believe the truth.
- L M Montgomery
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.
- John Steinbeck
The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore.
- John Steinbeck
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.
- John Steinbeck
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie
- John Steinbeck
Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also..either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.
- John Steinbeck
I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of the truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agonyof a lie is neverlost. That's a running sore
- John Steinbeck
There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.
- John Steinbeck
Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.
- Elizabeth Berg
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it.
- Haruki Murakami
We're not very different from one another, not different at all in fact. We're all just people with the same needs, the same desires, the same feelings. It's a lie about us being different.
- Harry Bernstein
Two daiquiris
withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room
and one told the other a lie.
- John Berryman
There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.
- Toba Beta
It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.
But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact.
- Toba Beta
One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.
- Jayson Blair
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.
- William Blake
Love and honor the world around you, and you experience life in its fullest. There is no "Other." There is simply us. The all of us, the whole of us. The mankind of us. Anything else is a lie.
- Cassandra Blizzard
But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.
- Roberto Bolano
Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.
- Tamora Pierce
Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.
- William Shakespeare
... truth is just a lie that everyone believes.
- Simon Van Booy
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
- Ray Bradbury
I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!
- Julie Bowen
They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.
- Lester Bowie
I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men and women didn't just live together--they made a commitment, they had children and went on cruises and built big houses on lakes and filled them with all the precious trinkets and manufactured artifacts they'd collected along the way.
- T C Boyle
Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.
- Russell Brand
You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know."
Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We
threatened to kill you if you didn't!
- Brandon Sanderson
The world is a lie not you and me.
- Libba Bray
The world is a lie, not you and me.
- Libba Bray
The world is a lie...not you and me.
- Libba Bray
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
- Willie Brown
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
- Georg Buchner
Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.
- Grant Morrison
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- Edmund Burke
A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves
- James Lee Burke
Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer.
Glen had been born on the day after Christmas.
"My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained.
But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.
- Augusten Burroughs
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
- Albert Einstein
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.
- William Hazlitt
To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
- Yancy Butler
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
- James Callaghan
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.
- Joseph Campbell
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
- Orson Scott Card
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.
- Orson Scott Card
The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
- Orson Scott Card
A little truth seasons a lie like salt.
- Jacqueline Carey
I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit like a glove for one that hung on us like ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However, all about us insisted on our membership. And instead of a handshake or a mystical password as entrance into this spurious society, we agreed instead to share a lie, the one that says we're safe, secure, and fulfilled living this way.
- Christina Carson
There are aspectsof this life-- of this world-- from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost everyone you love for the rest of your life will be a lie is one of them.
- Ally Carter
...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.
- Ally Carter
I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.
- Jimmy Carter
Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.
- Lillian Gordy Carter
But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear...
You are in the city of lies.
- Arlene J Chai
Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.
- Stephen King
He ran back and I watched him go, legs pumping, soles of his zori showing. I love him.
It's his face and sometimes the way his eyes turn up to mine that make me feel as if
things are really okay. It's a lie, of course-things are not okay and never have been-but
my kid makes me believe the lie.
- Stephen King
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Winston Churchill
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away ...
- Agatha Christie
Under each formula lies a corpse.
- Emile M Cioran
I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it. They sound really great on it. I already have it - I'm so VIP with my copy on my computer! It does sound really good.
- Kelly Clarkson
Fame is more addictive than crack. Adults who lose fame--one-hit wonders, for example--usually tailspin into depression, though they try to act like they're above it. They don't want to admit the truth. Their whole life is a lie, a desperate scramble for another dose of that most potent of drugs. Fame
- Harlan Coben
There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you're with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.
- Harlan Coben
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
What a strange phrase not seeing other people. As if it's been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.
- David Levithan
Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-'
The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?
- Terry Pratchett
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
- Terry Pratchett
Where are the gold pieces now?' the Fairy asked.
'I lost them,' answered Pinocchio, but he told a lie, for he had them in his pocket.
As he spoke, his nose, long though it was, became at least two inches longer.
- Carlo Collodi
Dear parents, Jasmine was in a relationship with a dirty homeless boy named Aladdin. Snow White lived alone with 7 men. Pinnochio was a liar. Robin Hood was a thief. Tarzan walked around without clothes on. A stranger kissed sleeping beauty and she married him. Cinderella lied and snuck out at night to attend a party. You can't blame us. We were taught to rebel since a young age.
- Walt Disney Company
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.
- Walt Disney Company
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies, - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do.
- Joseph Conrad
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
- Joseph Conrad
Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.
- Peter Cook
It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
- Pierre Corneille
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
- Pierre Corneille
I'm the most fluent liar in the world, I'm the coolest, the smoothest--'Rachel Abercrombie.'
A lie, Savich thought.
- Catherine Coulter
When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
- Doug Coupland
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.
- Stephen Crane
Half of tradition is a lie.
- Stephen Crane
You know, Bo, there is a feeling, in that instant following some life-changing tragedy, that you can actually step back over that sliver of time and stop the horror from coming. But that feeling is a lie, because in the tiniest microminisecond after any event occurs, it is as safe in history as Julius Caesar. Data in the universal computer is backed up as it happens.
- Chris Crutcher
I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
- Alan Cumming
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
- Willem Dafoe
Lex studied her. "Wait a sec. You're happy here?"
The expression on Cordy's face confirmed this. "Not gonna lie, Lex. It's pretty bitchin'."
"So I've been worried sick about you this whole time, picturing you miserable and wrecked and plotting mu excruciating demise, and you're telling me this has all been a summer cruise?"
"Yeah. Sorry.
- Gina Damico
Lex froze. "What boy?"
"That boy I saw you with, before you came up to ring the bell. The windows of this house are fully functional, you know."
Lex didn't even bother with a lie this time. "His name is Driggs. He's my partner."
"Ah, partner. How very Law and Order."
"Shut up, that's just how it works."
"I see. And have you two had a romp in the hay yet, or would that upset Mr. Frizzle the rooster?
- Gina Damico
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
- Harrison Ford
My whole life has been a lie.
- Bobby Darin
My entire life has been a lie.
- Bobby Darin
You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.
- John Green
But that's a lie, and you know it.
- John Green
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 beautiful lie we have.
- John Green
I learned that myth doesn't mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.
- John Green
It argues that true love will triumph in the end, which may or may not be true, but if it's a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
- John Green
And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won't be of any help to you. Even my admission can very well be a lie because there is dissimulation only if one tells the truth, only if one tells that one is telling the truth), still the text will remain indefinitely open, cryptic and parodying.
- Jacques Derrida
And I start to say that I'm not lying now, but I am, so that would be a lie.
- Lisa Desrochers
Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said 'friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.
- Sarah Dessen
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
- Graham Greene
Every word out of your mouth," he pants, "has beenva lie, hasn't it?"
"No," I say softly. "Not everything."
"What about your name?" he says. "Is your name even Rhine?
- Lauren Destefano
Truth never was indebted to a lie.
- Edward Young
when a lie is repeated enough it becomes the truth!
- Eric Jerome Dickey
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
- Franz Kafka
I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
- Gabby Douglas
The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
- Norman Douglas
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel De Montaigne
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
- Diane Duane
I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.
- Glen Duncan
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
- Finley Peter Dunne
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
- Bob Dylan
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.
- Umberto Eco
A lie cannot live.
- Martin Luther King Jr
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- Thomas A Edison
There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.
- Dave Eggers
The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.
- George Eliot
Tonight was... well, it was perfect for me too. You've turned my world upside down. I've fallen in love with you, chica, and it scares the fuckin' shit outta me. I've been shakin' all night, because I knew it.I've tried to deny it, to make you think I wanted you as a fake girlfriend, but that was a lie.
- Simone Elkeles
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.
- Steven Erikson
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
- William Faulkner
If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.
- Christine Feehan
Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.
- Shulamith Firestone
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
- Victor Hugo
We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrongwhen you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible troublethat's when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test.
- Ken Follett
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
- Thomas Fuller
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
- Fred W Friendly
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.
- Gena Showalter
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
- Stephen Leacock
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
- George Herbert
The wrong words. They were true a hundred times over, yet they sounded like a lie. Hadn't he always know it? Words were useless. At times they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moments you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is a silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.
- Cornelia Funke
If you could do such a thing as that-and I don't mean lying with a woman, I mean doing it and lying to me about it-then everything I've done and everything I've been-my whole life-has been a lie. And I am not prepared to admit such a thing.
- Diana Gabaldon
Jaime, you must be half-dead"
He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm hand on the small of my back.
"A lot more than half, Sassenach. I'm knackered, and my cock's the only thing too stupid to know it. I canna lie wi' ye without wanting you, but wanting's all I'm like to do.
- Diana Gabaldon
...the face of Christ in your van der Goes, no one could call that a lie.
- William Gaddis
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
- Lady Gaga
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true
- Lady Gaga
People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.
- Neil Gaiman
Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become people but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer, in the numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.
- Neil Gaiman
Utopia lies at the horizon.
When I draw nearer by two steps,
it retreats two steps.
If I proceed ten steps forward, it
swiftly slips ten steps ahead.
No matter how far I go, I can never reach it.
What, then, is the purpose of utopia?
It is to cause us to advance.
- Eduardo Galeano
All me lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.
- George R R Martin
A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them..
- George R R Martin
All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces. (a servant in the House of Black and White)
- George R R Martin
I'm not afraid to die. It was only half a lie.
- George R R Martin
A cause is a lie with a fan club.
- William H Gass
It would almost be easier to have woken up and found that everything about her life was a lie, instead of just this one awful truth.
- Debra Ginsberg
Nothing about this thing we have is a bad thing. I'm not gonna lie about it: I don't deserve you. I'm sure as hell not good enough for you, but as long as you want me, I'm all yours.
- Abbi Glines
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