Lie Quotes

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

Sleep, Together, Down

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

Truth, Art, Understand

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.
Anthony Hopkins

Down, Vodka, Drink

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

Money, Economy, Spending

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.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Truth, Another, Tell

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
John Cusack

Good, Why, Reason

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
Charles M. Schulz

Nothing, Night, Why

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
Ambrose Bierce

Die, Proud, Cry

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

Truth, Inside, Fiction

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

Law, Within, Actions

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Truth, Lies, Half

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

Truth, Before, Child

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
Tim Allen

Good, Men, Positive

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

Life, Religion, Islam

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.
Samuel Butler

Respect, Person, Him

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

Life, Within, Moderation

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sometimes, Against, Wind

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Michel de Montaigne

Him, Tell, Greater

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

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Robert Southey

Life, Nothing, Words

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth

Deep, Give, Thoughts

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

Truth, Fool, Sense

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

Love, Music, Work

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Thomas Mann

Truth, Useful, Harmful

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
Theodor Adorno

Someone, Cannot, Tell

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch

Education, Good, Honesty

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer

Power, True, Lies

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Good, Heart, Cannot

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot

Truth, Find, Bitter

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Simone Weil

Impossible, Door, Except

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