Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Publilius Syrus

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Henry Ellis

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

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.
Courtney Love

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

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
Conor Oberst

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Tom Wolfe

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.
John Kendrick Bangs

Lying can never save us from another lie.
Vaclav Havel

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

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

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.
Elvis Costello

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
Hilaire Belloc

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

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

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Paracelsus

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
William Feather