She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. - Margot Asquith I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang. - Richard Chamberlain 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 THE LUXE IS... Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899. - Anna Godbersen A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth. This means that everything you say is a white lie because when someone says, for example, "What...

I keep reading between the lies. - Goodman Ace I tilted my face forward, unable to speak the lie that would make him go away, or the truth that would make him stay. - Shadowborn - Jocelyn Adams Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. - Theodor Adorno Books do pretend...but squeezed in between is even more that is truewithout what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see? - Matthew Pearl And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him. - James Joyce In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies. - Jodi Picoult In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the leg...

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. - Paulo Coelho 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 And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. - William Faulkner 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

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. - Minna Antrim No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. - Friedrich Nietzsche The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. - Friedrich Nietzsche The let-alone lies not in your good will. - William Shakespeare One lies in truth, One truth is lies. One path is death, One path is life. One question asked, The path to guide. - John Connolly But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm. - Franz Kafka Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm. - Franz Kafka It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Now, I know...

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful. - Paula Abdul Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought. - Iain Banks I never lied to you. (Kiara) Of course you did you said you could see the real us that we weren't as bad as we claimed. But you didn't and, just like everyone else, so long as we risk our lives to protect and save you, we're okay. But the moment we have to make a choice not ours, the moment you see what our pasts have made us, you're horrified by the truth and hate us for it like we had some kind of choice in what we are. (Syn) - Sh...

I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks. - Walter Kirn This is another day, O Lord... If I am to stand up, help me to stand bravely. If I am to sit still, help me to sit quietly. If I am to lie low, help me to do it patiently. And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly. - Kathleen Norris

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful. - Paula Abdul I never lied to you. (Kiara) Of course you did you said you could see the real us that we weren't as bad as we claimed. But you didn't and, just like everyone else, so long as we risk our lives to protect and save you, we're okay. But the moment we have to make a choice not ours, the moment you see what our pasts have made us, you're horrified by the truth and hate us for it like we had some kind of choice in what we are. (Syn) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Sometimes," Sam says, "I can't tell when you're lying." "I never lie," I lie. - Holly Black I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them. - Michael Bloomberg Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it." "Evvy and I have an understanding." She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. "She tells me the...

Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell. - J R R Tolkien Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by - J R R Tolkien I'm not an angel, Jace," she repeated. "I don't return library books. I steal illegal music off the internet. I lie to my mom. I am completely ordinary . - Cassandra Clare She'll be back," Ranger said. "But not tonight." [Stephanie] "How'd you get her to leave?" Told her I was gonna spend the next twelve hours ruining you for all other men, and so she might as well go home." I could feel the heat rush to my face. Ranger gave me the wolf smile. "I lied about it...

I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you." Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing. Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh. - Sarah Rees Brennan I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope." Sure you don't, I thought. - Sarah Dessen You lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward." He smiled. "I don't lie to you." "Really," I said. The smile became a grin. "Okay, not most of the time, anymore." His face sobered. "I'm not lying now. - Laurell K Hamilton It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do. - Ellen Wittlinger I like...

Integrity is the sound follow through of your heart, and an important part in the process of manifesting what it is that you aspire to. If you say that you are going to do something, do it. If you fail to complete the task at hand, or fulfill a promise you made, you are not operating at the right frequency. Don't lie to yourself and to others, follow through. Complete yourself, Expand your consciousness. - Will Barnes Manipulating situations is one thing, but lying is another. My theory (especially with girls) is that if you don't lie, you can't be held responsible for anything bad that goes down. - Lauren Barnholdt Mirrors don't lie. They only show a part of truth. A broken mirror can enlarge a face up to a dimension of a small planet. A problem of reflection? A point of view. - Lara Biyuts Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever - Anthony Bourdain I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH ...

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. - Plato The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence. - Paul Auster Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. - Edward De Bono I do not lie to you, Watanuki. Because you are a very important person to me. - Clamp Lies do not lie, truth do, In the times of any act lies lie hidden behind. - Santosh Kalwar 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. - John Dewey The dream was green, and the green dreams do not lie. - George R R Martin Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil. - Davi...

Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?--Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor - James Grady I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks. - Joe Scarborough

The acknowledgement of White cowardice has driven literally tens of millions of White Americans to try to escape it by undergoing a voluntary human metamorphosis and becoming "part-Indian." 95% would become proven liars by a simple DNA test, but their children grow up believing the lie. Abandoning the White race means not having to fight for it or defend it in any way. - Frazier Glenn Miller Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us. - Jonathan Nolan

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 ...