Lie Quotes

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

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

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

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

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.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

My entire life has been a lie.

My whole life has been a lie.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

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

There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

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

I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

I just have an inability to lie.

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

I do understand that America is a predominantly Christian country. A lot of morals and values are based in Christianity as opposed to Buddhism, which it's not, or Judaism, which it's not, or Islam, which it's definitely not. So I'm not going to lie to myself and just be like, 'Well you know, everybody's equal.' Because we're not.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.

I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them.

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

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

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.

I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

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.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

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

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

I am wearing a size 28 Paige Jeans. Jeans don't lie, and I am just happy!

The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

I'm not going to lie to you fellas, I've been drinking.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.