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

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

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Pablo Picasso

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Alexander Pope

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Alexander Pope

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Thomas Paine

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

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
Charlie Sheen

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Leo Tolstoy

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken

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

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
Michael Jackson

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
Marilyn Manson

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
Giacomo Casanova

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude Stein

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles Spurgeon