A Simple Lie Quotes

#1. ideology signifies a phenomenon intermediate between a simple lie at one pole, and an error, which is the result of a distorted and faulty conceptual apparatus, at the other.

Karl Mannheim

#2. It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#3. If it's a choice between a difficult truth and a simple lie, people will take the lie every time. Even if it kills them.

Paul Murray

#4. The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

Anthony Kennedy

#5. Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.

Emma Donoghue

#6. You can either control yourself by simple two lines of bitter truth ,
OR
by confusing yourself in long stories to comfort with a lie

Er.teji

#7. Simple as that," said Nina. "Did you know I'm next in line for the Fjerdan throne? They call me Princess Ilse of Engelsberg." "There is no princess of Engelsberg," said Matthias. "It's a fishing town." Nina shrugged. "If we're going to lie to ourselves, we might as well be grand about it.

Leigh Bardugo

#8. A simple question. A simple answer. What opportunities lie within our reach that hold the power to make a difference in the quality of the lives of others simply by sharing the bounties and blessings that grace our lives?

Kathryn Hall

#9. I believe that one day we'll understand that we've lost out on religion because we made it too lofty and distant. I see it as a simple quality of everyday life, and in that simplicity lie its beauty and importance.

Thomas Moore

#10. Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available ...

Karen Traviss

#11. The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.

Marge Piercy

#12. Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Remy De Gourmont

#13. Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler."
"I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder.

James Thurber

#14. Living a religious sexual lifestyle is tantamount to living a lie.
Religion distorts our sexuality when the majority of religious people live one life for the public and another in private. It can be as simple as living as a "happily married" couple when you are both miserable with your sex life.

Darrel Ray

#15. It was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder; it was a simple, urgent matter of public pride, a matter of how much I had in common with other people.

Richard Wright

#16. The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.

Elena Gorokhova

#17. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#18. The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life?

Jack Kornfield

#19. He looked down at the mask hanging around his neck. So simple a lie, and he could walk freely throughout the world.
But would he then be trapped within the web of his own deception? What freedom could he find in denying the truth about himself?

R.A. Salvatore

#20. Life is not that simple. That is why it is called life. That word includes both lie and if. Time to figure out which side of the "half" fence you are on: Does your life include a lie or just one big if? There is nothing wrong with either to be honest, but it will make your Sundays longer.

Corey Taylor

#21. I won't share you. Plain and simple. Don't lie or cheat. If you're looking for deal breakers, there they are. I can always work with the truth." ~ Liam

A.L. Zaun

#22. A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.

Faraaz Kazi

#23. When confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, "I never did that," and will to all appearances believe their own direct lie.

Martha Stout

#24. Perhaps my gift to you will be as simple as a single word, whispered into your ear by one of your servants as you lie on your deathbed, a word that solves a final mystery and makes it easy for you to slip quietly into the dark.

Dexter Palmer

#25. When the enemies of Spire Albion were in the walls, the great-great granddaughter of old Admiral Tagwynn had refused to have a good lie-down, and it was as simple and as profound as that.

Jim Butcher

#26. A good lawyer is part con man, part priest
promising riches, threatening hell. My ethical rules are simple. I won't lie to the court or let a client do it. But I've never been in this position. How far would I go for a woman who mattered? Is there anything I wouldn't do to win?

Paul Levine

#27. Life is so simple: We walk; we sit; we lie horizontal. That's about it. Everything else is a story about what's going on while we're doing it.

Byron Katie

#28. All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie?

Friedrich Nietzsche