It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Hilaire Belloc

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

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
Damon Albarn

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

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
Joseph Brodsky

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.
Donald Rumsfeld

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
George Crabbe

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

When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it.
Whoopi Goldberg

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
Hippocrates

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
A. E. Housman

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Bo Bennett

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

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

Don't lie if you don't have to.
Leo Szilard

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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