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

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

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

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
Desiderius Erasmus

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.
Puff Daddy

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.
John Le Carre

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

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

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

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.
Mark Wahlberg

Lying can never save us from another lie.
Vaclav Havel

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

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
Federico Garcia Lorca

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

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
Jackson Browne

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn