Top 100 Didn't Lie Quotes
#1. He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.
Graham Greene
#2. Oh for 'Shael's sweet sake, girl, you think you can rule an empire without lying? You think your father didn't lie? Or his father? Or any of your goldy-eyed great-great-founders of Annur? It's built into the job. Bakers have flour, fishermen have nets, and leaders have lies.
Brian Staveley
#3. I didn't mislead people. I know I didn't lie and I have got to establish that.
Peter Mandelson
#4. Your teacher didn't lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.
Piers Anthony
#5. I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.
Homer Simpson
Matt Groening
#6. 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
#8. ...they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.
James Baldwin
#9. Q: Did he think that love could last forever? A: Well, no, but the limits to eternity didn't lie specifically with love. They lay in the general difficulty of maintaining an appreciative relationship with anything or anyone that was always around.
Alain De Botton
#10. My mouth could deny my interest in Kelly all day long, but my pussy didn't lie. He felt like more than a single person. Two hands, a hard body, a mean voice. A one-man orgy. I'd leave here limping, just as he'd promised.
Cara McKenna
#11. So the man told you the truth, and now you're surprised to discover he didn't lie.
Penny Reid
#12. I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.
Stanley A. McChrystal
#13. I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!
Homer
#14. Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.
Loretta Lynch
#15. My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.
Ann Aguirre
#17. But I knew something that Elena hadn't. That the measure of a true queen didn't lie in her magic. It had more to do with who she was, and what she was willing to give of herself, than it did with the powers she possessed
- Charlaina di Heyse
Kimberly Derting
#18. Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.
Karen Marie Moning
#19. ...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this world.
Teresa Mummert
#20. I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.
Mark Cuban
#21. I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.
Frank Buckles
#22. I didn't apply to any colleges - I lied to all my friends and told them I was going to UCSD, because all their parents would be like, 'Mark, where're you going to college?' and I'd just lie 'cause I felt it was unrealistic to be an actor.
Mark Ruffalo
#23. Eden, it would be a lie if I told you I didn't want to kiss those perfect lips again. That's what I am fighting with at the moment, so no I do not want you to leave. I want you to stick around so you can continue to torment me.
Rachel Brookes
#24. Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.
Kevin Drum
#25. I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.
Mike Huckabee
#26. Spy (1973)
Many years ago,
I was sent
to spy out the land beyond the age of thirty.
And I stayed there
and didn't go back to my senders,
so as not to be made
to tell
about this land
and made
to lie.
Yehuda Amichai
#27. I knew it," she snapped. "You're no different from all men. You're just another jerk pretending to be single! I didn't wanna wrap a lie into a Christmas present anyway.
Maha Erwin
#28. You, Mackenzie Bishop," he says as we hit the landing, "have been a very bad girl."
"How so?"
He rounds the banister at the base of the staircase. "You involved me in a lie! Don't think I didn't catch it.
Victoria Schwab
#29. I've learned that the heart does not lie. The thought of never being with him or having him in my life again shattered me. Not a day went by that I didn't think of his smile or remember his laugh, his touch, and how that alluring Scottish accent always made my knees tremble.
Victoria Roberts
#30. So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I knew the answer, but how could I be sure? I didn't know, and I didn't have any way to find out.
Guys don't talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.
Kami Garcia
#31. Lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas.
One of the main characters in 'Nothing is Lost' says that. She probably didn't know that the source was Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin
#32. ... he didn't needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.
Toni Morrison
#34. Gamache had asked not because he didn't know the answer, but because he wanted to see if Peter would lie to him. He had. And if he'd lie about that, what else had he lied about?
Louise Penny
#35. She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.
Dan Fogelberg
#36. There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.
Jack Nicholson
#37. I've been through hell. It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me.
Elin Nordegren
#38. Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?
Byron Katie
#39. He'd just have to lie there and die, watched over by strange stars who didn't know him, didn't care for him. It was very sad, really.
John Flanagan
#40. Did we win?" Salan asked as Karol stood. "Hell yes, we did," Karol said, glad that he didn't have to lie to say it. "You just stay there and wait your turn. And don't get impatient. We don't rush the cunning men for pinpricks and scrapes." "Be all right with me if they rushed a little, sir.
Daniel Abraham
#41. How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn't start for reasons we're too devious to tell the truth about? It's way too easy for governments to spend other people's blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die.
Dan Groat
#42. 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
#43. He resented our oddness without the rest of the equation. He felt left out even though he knew the stories of the origins. By the transitive property, he shouldn't have liked her since he didn't like her handiwork, but somehow he stubbornly never did that math.
Jamie Mason
#44. He lied. I lied. Any love that starts out under a lie is bound to kill you. I just didn't want to die on my feet.
Karina Halle
#45. A human would lie on the ground sobbing. A Reboot didn't acknowledge pain.
Amy Tintera
#46. I won't lie and say I didn't think about it, but I decided to stay. I trusted you more than I was scared
of him. So trust me now if you can. I'm not going anywhere. I'll take care of Kevin until you return.
Nora Sakavic
#47. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are - or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn't. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.
Michael J. Sullivan
#48. Why did he care if Gansey and Ronan saw this? They already knew. They knew everything about him. What a lie unknowable was. The only person who didn't know Adam was himself.
Maggie Stiefvater
#49. You want me to lie to you? said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.
Alice Hoffman
#50. That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea of working with synthesizers but now I think they're fun, there are no restrictions. Not that I understand how they work.
Vince Clarke
#51. The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack?
'Cuz, yeah, didn't everybody's ancestors rise up and destroy enemies.
Christine Feehan
#52. If people around me didn't lied, I would also won't lie!
Deyth Banger
#53. I didn't know the real reason that she was crying. I was just carried away by the feeling of her in my arms, trembling and warm.
Kaori Ozaki
#54. No one showed any signs of recognizing me. I didn't know what I'd do if they did, other than lie like a devil and pray like a saint.
Rodney Jones
#55. The fact that I didn't even love myself was just enough to know it's time to change. I accept that not many are able to help, let alone, understand the troubles that lie within.
H.M. Gautsch
#56. Dammit, white folk are always giving orders, it's a habit with them. Why didn't you make an excuse? You're black and living in the South
did you forget how to lie?
Ralph Ellison
#57. With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.
Cybill Shepherd
#58. She didn't tell me how to live, and I didn't tell her how to die. We let sleeping dogs lie.
Jardine Libaire
#59. It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.
Mario Puzo
#60. Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid. I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics.
Jenny Han
#61. Maybe that's what our friendship was. It was the feeling that we didn't have to speak or explain. We could sit in the darkness and watch the tadpoles just as easily as we could lie out in the heat and breathe in the smell of peaches and gravel, all without saying a word.
Rachel Coker
#62. Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.
Tamora Pierce
#63. One afternoon, as Rose lay in a sweaty daze, teetering on the edge of consciousness, she made me swear that I would look after Linden, and I promised I would. I didn't expect to keep that promise, but maybe my,lie will at least do him some good in the meantime.
Lauren DeStefano
#64. He was right that I was afraid. But I didn't think I was afraid of the truth. I was afraid of believing something that would destroy me if it turned out to be a lie.
Amy Harmon
#65. I took a lie detector test the other day. No, I didn't.
Steven Wright
#66. It had become easier to lie about most things because it didn't hurt as much when he ignored me.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#67. I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#68. You! That is what is behind this. Ever since you -- As if I didn't have enough on my mind without having to lie awake thinking of you and your damned kisses and your damned questions.
Marguerite Kaye
#69. I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not. -Lavi
Katsura Hoshino
#70. The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn't see. It's amazing. It's a wonderful moment. Parents should celebrate. 'Hurray! My boy finally started to lie!' All right! It calls for celebration.
Kim Young-ha
#71. I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.
Kenneth Logan
#72. He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips.
Khaled Hosseini
#73. There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.
John Steinbeck
#74. If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours.
Traci Chee
#75. Murderers with severe personality disorders, police had learned, sometimes could fool a lie detector because they lacked shame and guilt, and didn't feel the normal stress when lying.
Michael Benson
#76. If Mrs. Coulter saw his reaction, she didn't show it. She went on: Look, Will, I don't know how you came to meet my daughter, and I don't know what you know already, and I certainly don't know if I can trust you; but equally, I'm tired of having to lie. So here it is: the truth.
Philip Pullman
#77. Just lie back, wench."
She snickered. "Did you call me wench? Well, you certainly dated yourself there, didn't you? Sometimes I forget how old you are. What's your age, anyway? Thirty-seven? Thirty-eight?"
"I'm thirty-three.
Kresley Cole
#78. And i wish I didn't have to lie so much. I don't think Frank Socrates would approve of all this lying.
I think Frank would want me to cause a lot more trouble than that.
A.S. King
#79. Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything strange?"
Alanna didn't look up. "No." It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time.
Tamora Pierce
#80. Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.
Jodi Picoult
#81. It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head.
Thrity Umrigar
#82. I heave a painful gasp, trying to catch my breath. My cheeks feel wet, though I don't remember crying. Executed. My blood boils under my skin. It's a lie. He didn't run. He was in the Guard. And they found out. They killed him for it. They murdered him.
Victoria Aveyard
#83. I knew that at least a few of the stars I saw were probably gone already, collapsed into nothing. I felt like I was looking at a lie. But I didn't mind. The world makes liars of us all.
Kevin Powers
#84. Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species.
Alice Hoffman
#85. The lie detector didn't react to anything I said, but I wouldn't dare smile.
Embee
#86. You don't fear me," he said now.
She wasn't stupid enough to lie. "I'm petrified. But I figure you didn't make me come all this way just so you could push me off the roof.
Nalini Singh
#87. The only thing is I am a little bit ashamed of is I didn't come out earlier, that I didn't have the strength to do it, the courage to break that lie. But everyone goes on their own path to do this, and I don't want the struggle to be so hard for other people.
Ian Thorpe
#88. This planet is a broken bone that didn't set right, a hundred pieces of crystal glued together. We've been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we're supposed to. But it's a lie, it's all a lie.
Tahereh Mafi
#89. What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
Orson Scott Card
#90. slept at all. I didn't want to think how it would feel, to lie trapped in a bed you couldn't get out of with only dark thoughts to keep you company through the small hours.
Jojo Moyes
#91. Lopez reached into his pocket, took out a small packet of white lozenges, and popped one into his mouth. He didn't offer one to Holden. Lopez's pupils contracted to tiny points as he sucked the lozenge. Focus drugs. He'd be watching every tic of Holden's face during questioning. Tough to lie to.
James S.A. Corey
#92. I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free.
Sylvia Plath
#93. They can hear lies, he realized. But not thoughts. He could hide things, he didn't have to lie. Silence could be his shield.
Anthony Ryan
#94. She wasn't going to lie and she wasn't going to try to hide Terrible or who he was. She loved him and he was hers, and that made her so proud her chest hurt, and if anybody didn't like it they could go fuck themselves.
Stacia Kane
#95. You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.
Helen Thomas
#96. That's probably what had drawn me to Regina, the way she made me feel like I didn't have to lie.
Barack Obama
#97. The weight of the lie was so great it almost didn't escape my lips and barely made it to her ears
V.C. Andrews
#98. A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward.
A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.
Betty Smith
#99. You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know."
Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We
threatened to kill you if you didn't!
Brandon Sanderson
#100. Everybody tells lie sometimes, she replied . Wouldn't be human if you didn't. But mostly I tell the truth. - Alice
Joseph Delaney
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