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

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
Gottfried Leibniz

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
Gottfried Leibniz

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

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
George Herbert

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

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.
Sandra Bullock

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.
Tori Amos

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Karl Kraus

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.
Derek Jeter

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

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.
Mickey Mantle

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
Stevie Wonder

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Diane Ackerman

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.
Peter Singer

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
Peter Singer

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