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

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
Pierre Corneille

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
Eric Carr

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
Bob Woodward

My entire life has been a lie.
Bobby Darin

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.
Elia Kazan

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.
Christopher Lasch

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
Yitzhak Rabin

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Christopher Lasch

To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
Yancy Butler

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
Joseph Brodsky

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
Mary Astell

Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post.
Lord Charles Beresford

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!
Bobby Darin

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Remy de Gourmont

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
Jean Rostand

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
Belle Boyd

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.
Mary Cheney

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
King Hussein I