Top 100 Best Lie Quotes

#1. The best lie is wrapped around a core of truth.

Michael Scott

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#2. The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

Isaac Asimov

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#3. The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction.

Renee Conoulty

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#4. I hate when things are sugar-coated. I'd rather have the ugliest truth than the best lie.

Chloe Grace Moretz

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#5. The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.

Robert Jordan

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#6. Sometimes the best lie was just the truth left to ripen on the branch too long.

Lou Berney

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#7. When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

Cecil Frances Alexander

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#8. You can't play "How will you do it... if you are on my place..." - Now you feel comfortable from that side... you feel that it's right from your side... so you put that as a peace in the recipe and some extra ingredients you add and look you just created the best lie as being in my state.

Deyth Banger

Best Lie Quotes #1342707
#9. The best lies were always mixed with truth.

Sarah J. Maas

Best Lie Quotes #16728
#10. Only once can I say "I'm dying" without telling a lie. The best day of my life may already be behind me.

Edouard Leve

Best Lie Quotes #43301
#11. A lot crystallized in Phil's mind that day about how people lie. If the facts are not their ally, people have to say something that convinces you, and the best thing they can say is something that's true or irrefutable.

Philip Houston

Best Lie Quotes #50788
#12. No lie, just had one of the best times of my life at Rucker park..wow! I love NYHarlem waddup.

Kevin Durant

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#13. Art, after all, is - at its best - a lie that tells us the truth.

Nam Le

Best Lie Quotes #124943
#14. Because we grow up, Filip,' Tedros exhaled. 'When you're young, you think your best friend is everything. But once you find real love... it changes. Your friendship can never be the same after that. Because no matter how much you try to keep both, your loyalty can only lie with one.

Soman Chainani

Best Lie Quotes #154270
#15. Truth itself is the best prudence.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

Best Lie Quotes #161425
#16. The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true.

Neil Gaiman

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#17. Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Best Lie Quotes #201583
#18. This was the best time of the day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

Sylvia Plath

Best Lie Quotes #201810
#19. Honesty is, honestly, the best policy," said Saracen. "But when honesty doesn't work, lie, and lie convincingly.

Derek Landy

Best Lie Quotes #204364
#20. The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

Anne Stuart

Best Lie Quotes #216321
#21. A man's best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

Best Lie Quotes #227518
#22. But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

Marilyn Manson

Best Lie Quotes #241945
#23. Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves.

Graham Phillips

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#24. The best lies to tell," said Jane, "are the ones people want to believe.

Jasper Fforde

Best Lie Quotes #311923
#25. I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the
magical place that it is.

Tim Cook

Best Lie Quotes #317691
#26. Let's live to believe leaving all lies behind

Munia Khan

Best Lie Quotes #341909
#27. I'm a very truthful person, but if the greater good is best served by a lie then I'll tell it.

Karina Bliss

Best Lie Quotes #351457
#28. So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.

Ann Coulter

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#29. Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.

Lemony Snicket

Best Lie Quotes #404272
#30. Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

Nick Nolte

Best Lie Quotes #420614
#31. I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.

Carol Grace

Best Lie Quotes #422686
#32. The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

Mark Twain

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#33. An expert was once a beginner. Success does not lie in the results but in efforts. Being the best is not that all important. Doing it right is all what matters.

Osunsakin Adewale

Best Lie Quotes #448789
#34. Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Plautus

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#35. Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Marilyn Manson

Best Lie Quotes #482517
#36. That's right. Obama didn't lie to you when he said, 'if you like your plan, you can keep it.' Why? Because, you sillies, you DIDN'T REALLY like the plan you chose for yourselves! No arguing. Barack Obama knows best, and he'll tell you whether you actually liked your insurance plan or not.

Sarah Palin

Best Lie Quotes #510083
#37. I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

Gary D. Schmidt

Best Lie Quotes #528936
#38. Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

Clive Thompson

Best Lie Quotes #530915
#39. At best, the fellowship is founded on a false hope, and at worst, it's founded on a lie.

Robin Sloan

Best Lie Quotes #577051
#40. Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together,' he said, and a smile spread across his face as easy as a politician's lie.

R.D. Ronald

Best Lie Quotes #577502
#41. How can you say it was all a lie?" I ask, just above a whisper. "Matt was my best friend. I loved him that way always. 'We have to look out for her.' That was the last thing he said to me alone. And then he died. What was I supposed to do, Frank? Tell me?

Sarah Ockler

Best Lie Quotes #604073
#42. All maps lie. Even the best maps distort the truth. Entire wars have been won and lost because of maps, these keepers of secrets.

Justina Chen Headley

Best Lie Quotes #633357
#43. I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I couldn't do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then it's part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.

Chuck Brown

Best Lie Quotes #652968
#44. We're alive. We have words and shapes and ideas. We will throw them at you when you do not believe. We will throw our love and our hate and our failure and success. We'll split in two right in front of you and be our best and our worst. We'll lie and tell the truth.

A.S. King

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#45. Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow's technological world.

Gordon Smith

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#46. He had always thought that a Native American should have shot Robert Frost for the outrageous lie of the line "The land was ours before we were the land's." What a scandal that would be, America's best-loved geezer falling in a battle over poetry.

Jim Harrison

Best Lie Quotes #781868
#47. Cats were not and are not tool makers the way humans became toolmakers. They are specifically adapted as obligate carnivores, This means the vegetarian cat is an oxymoron at best and a blatant lie at worst. Cats need meat. The concept of a Garden of Eden would be rather atrocious to them.

Leviak B. Kelly

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#48. A single lie is the father of all lies

Sheeja Jose

Best Lie Quotes #845845
#49. True love should not have to lie, cheat, or steal. The best kind of love finds you when you need it most.

Shelly Crane

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#50. Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.

Brent Weeks

Best Lie Quotes #879600
#51. I'm not going to lie to you: being Speaker of the State Assembly is the best job I've ever had in my entire career. But you know, I got into politics 'cause I wanted to make a difference, and I was always raised that one person could make a difference.

Jeff Fitzgerald

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#52. Johnny 'Fairplay' Dalton manufactured a lie about his dear grandmother dying in order to win a challenge. This is one of the best villain moments of 'Survivor' ever! This lie was pre-planned, evil, and perfectly played out.

Jenna Morasca

Best Lie Quotes #896272
#53. The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living.

Kaori Ozaki

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#54. Are you out of your mind?"
It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

Ilona Andrews

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#55. She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain

Billy Joel

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#56. It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

Mark Twain

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#57. My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

Desmond Tutu

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#58. All governments lie; those that lie the best are those we trust the most

Michael Patrick Clark

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#59. The first kiss in the morning
tastes like the first kiss on earth.
My waking soul is innocent,
as I lie next to the tenant
of my best dreams.
When I caress him I know:
a kiss is preverbal,
a word is a kiss's junior.

Vera Pavlova

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#60. Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

Caitlyn Jenner

Best Lie Quotes #1041205
#61. As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world.

Wesley Eisold

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#62. It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.

Frederick Lenz

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#63. Whenever I can't sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I've been assassinated. I've found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I'm in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.

Chuck Klosterman

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#64. Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day ... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day ... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things ... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures ...

Charles M. Schulz

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#65. This is the currency of friendship, traded over years and miles, and I hope it's an even exchange someday. For now, I do what all best friends do when there's nothing left to say. We lie together in all the darkness, shoulder to shoulder, and wait for the worst to be over.

Emery Lord

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#66. It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers only - and perhaps the indifferent ones - that photography can lie.

Henry Peach Robinson

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#67. Earth in beauty dressed
Awaits returning spring.
All true love must die,
Alter at the best
Into some lesser thing.
Prove that I lie.

William Butler Yeats

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#68. We as parents are our children's first and best role models, and this is particularly true when it comes to their health ... We can't lie around on the couch eating French fries and candy bars and expect our kids to eat carrots and run around the block.

Michelle Obama

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#69. Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

Hal Boyle

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#70. Anorexics are the best liars in the world. You do anything to keep control. You place people into separate categories, those you trust, those you don't, those you can confide in and those whom you lie to. But of course the reality is that underneath it all, you are lying to yourself all the time.

Peter Barham

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#71. I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you."
"I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, "
or the best. Now I'm all confused.

Tamora Pierce

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#72. If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.

Lewis Thomas

Best Lie Quotes #1265112
#73. I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I'm working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They're the best tools for working that I have.

Mark Ruffalo

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#74. I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.

Nancy Farmer

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#75. If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

Lawrence Block

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#76. You will be amazed to find how easy it is to lie, even to those you love best.

Alice Hoffman

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#77. But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.

Hope Mirrlees

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#78. The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Harold Taylor

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#79. Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Hypatia

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#80. You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Idries Shah

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#81. Christianity is a lie, and possibly the best one ever constructed because aside from architecture, it is all that survives from the Roman Empire.

Alejandro C. Estrada

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#82. The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

Adam DeVine

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#83. It was enough to lie there and expand / Till all the stars were shining into me / And I was all the stars that I could see / In all the endless acres of the night. / That was the best of living.

Jane Merchant

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#84. I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.

Joyce Rachelle

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#85. Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it's actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.

Banksy

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#86. We had experienced the best and the worst of love, sex, and lies. Every heartbreak, every lie, every cheat, every test,

Jessica N. Watkins

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#87. A child is a best story teller if it is encouraged to do so. Parents shouldn't get confused between a lie and an excuse. They should let their children open for excuses and see how many fantasies come into existence.

Anurag Bhatt

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#88. There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

Jacques Maritain

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#89. I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth ... that saves the world.

George MacDonald

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#90. In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

Sol Stein

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#91. IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to build the best character, then I am going to stick on the lie. This is the thingy which helps us to get out of...

Deyth Banger

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#92. Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years
'Nobody saw this coming'
is always a self-serving lie.

Eugene Linden

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#93. When we presume to lie for the benefit of others, we have decided that we are the best judges of how much they should understand about their own lives - about how they appear, their reputations, or their prospects in the world.

Sam Harris

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#94. I was sorry that I'd told him, but I had no defenses anymore. I could not lie, even for the best of reasons; there was simply no place to go, nowhere to hide. I felt beset by whispering ghosts, their loss, their need, their desperate love pulling me apart. Apart from Jamie, apart from myself.

Diana Gabaldon

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#95. Dogs are the best example of a being who doesn't need to lie to protect someone's pride.

Ammiel Josiah Monterde.

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#96. The Skeleton
Chattering finch and water-fly
Are not merrier than I;
Here among the flowers I lie
Laughing everlastingly.
No: I may not tell the best;
Surely, friends, I might have guessed
Death was but the good King's jest,
It was hid so carefully.

G.K. Chesterton

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#97. The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.

Joanna Scott

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#98. When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."

Robert Green Ingersoll

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#99. They say that the best dog will turn cross if he be kept chained all the time, and it was the same with the man; he had not a thing to do all day but lie and curse his fate, and the time came when he wanted to curse everything.

Upton Sinclair

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#100. The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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