Lie Quotes

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.
Hugh Laurie

Run, Lunch, Hour

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

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

Wings, Leg, Scandal

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de Montaigne

Men, Betray, Public

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Michel de Montaigne

Good, Enough, Memory

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.
Joe Rogan

Crazy, Act, Pressure

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

Truth, After, Masquerade

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

Women, Mortal, Boldly

No lie ever reaches old age.
Sophocles

Age, Old, Reaches

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
Simon Pegg

Happen, Used, Bed

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Ourselves, Loudest

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

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Shakira

Truth, Heart, Someone

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
Simone Weil

Doubt, Soul, Whether

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

Sleep, Awake, Afterwards

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Gilbert Parker

Evil, Silence, Speech

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Alfred Adler

Truth, Sense, Dangerous

A lie never lives to be old.
Sophocles

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Wole Soyinka

Power, Truth, Control

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin E. Mays

Life, Goal, Lies

Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
Alveda King

Evil, Humanity, Black

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
George Herbert

True, Nothing, Two

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.
Jimmy Carter

Confidence, Betray, Tell

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Horace Walpole

Truth, Justice, Others

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.
Franz Kafka

Truth, Two, Cannot

Lying can never save us from another lie.
Vaclav Havel

Another, Lying, Save

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
Mason Cooley

God, Reason, Omnipotent

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas

Work, Artist, Goes

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno

Truth, Art, Magic

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
Doug Coupland

Tell, Photo, Crop

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