Top 100 Lie With 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. People can lie with words, but their faces, and in particular their eyes, give them away. They
David Baldacci
#3. Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.
Jenny McCarthy
#4. But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.
Gore Vidal
#5. He wanted to lie with Marc and touch him everywhere, give him pleasure and purge his bad memories from him. He wanted to consume him and be consumed by him.
Darien Cox
#6. It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.
J. E. Buckrose
#7. 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
#8. I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you."
Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing.
Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#9. If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.
Harvey Bialy
#10. Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#11. I can't sleep,' he said. 'Let me lie with my head on your silver breast.
Jean Rhys
#12. I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
Errol Morris
#13. If I lay here
If I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Snow Patrol
#15. You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. The problem doesn't lie with the great teachers. Great teachers strive to create linchpins. The problem lies with the system that punishes artists and rewards bureaucrats instead. Here
Seth Godin
#17. Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
James Anthony Froude
#18. Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.
Eugene O'Neill
#19. Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.
William Shakespeare
#20. Do you think my being someone else's wife will change anything? Don't you know that I'd lie with you in the groves, under the light of the moon? That I'd defy the laws of gods and men for you?
Richelle Mead
#22. Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.
Thomas A. Edison
#23. Most of all, I like the fact that you share yourself with me. That I
don't have to prove my strength to you. I don't have to hurt or be hurt to lie with you. - Vane
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#24. A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Finley Peter Dunne
#25. The future is the lie with which we justify the brutality of the present.
Anthony Marra
#26. Last night, I realized that it is possible for love to die in an instant. It felt sickening to lie with you in the same bed and have your arms wrapped tightly around me. It no longer felt right.
Christine Celis
#27. KING EDWARD IV:
To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.
LADY GREY:
To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison.
William Shakespeare
#28. Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.
Mason Cooley
#29. 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
#30. Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.
Gwendolyn MacEwen
#31. One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to do to other men what men habitually, proudly, manfully do to women: use them as inanimate, empty, concave things; fuck them into submission; subordinate them through sex.
Andrea Dworkin
#33. While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them.
Frederick Mosteller
#34. Life is just a lie with an 'F' in it, and death is definite
Sage Francis
#35. Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.
Dalai Lama XIV
#36. In 1916, President Wilson drafted the speech in which he declared, "It shall not lie with the American people to dictate to another what their government shall be." His Secretary of State Robert Lansing wrote in the margin: "Haiti, S Domingo, Nicaragua, Panama."6 That
Os Guinness
#37. A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it.
M.F. Moonzajer
#38. Because Scientology is perceived and conceived by Scientologists as being this salvation for mankind, you can have people that lie with a very straight face if they believe that what they are doing is protecting the Church of Scientology.
Mike Rinder
#39. In his natural perversion, a man wants to lie with a hooker, wed a virgin, and keep both.
Ron Brackin
#40. Dear little Bog-Face,
Why are you so cold?
And why do you lie with your eyes shut?
You are not very old.
I am a Child of this World
And a Child of Grace,
And Mother, I shall be glad when it is over,
I am Bog-Face.
Stevie Smith
#41. My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.
Ashwin Sanghi
#42. It's easy to lie with statistics, but it's hard to tell the truth without them.
Charles Wheelan
#43. You cannot grasp a lie with your hand,
but it can destroy more than an axe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. 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
#45. The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears
but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.
Samuel Butler
#46. You okay, Sam?"
"Ha-ha, why wouldn't I be? Everything is peachy! I'm okay. I'm better than okay."
"Okay. I only ask because you haven't stopped staring at me for the last four hours."
"You lie with all your lies!
T.J. Klune
#47. Why isn't it enough that I'm willing to submit to you?' Poppy asked, her own temper flaring. 'Why must I be eager to lie with you, when you're not the husband I wanted?
Lisa Kleypas
#48. I you tell a lie, you have to tell ten more to keep it alive. A story is just a lie with a good exit strategy.
Kelvin Kwa
#49. May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers.
Tina Fey
#50. 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
#51. But to paraphrase the ever-paraphraseable Freud, who said something to the effect that when you speak about the past you lie with every breath you take, I will say this: When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.
Rabih Alameddine
#52. You think he has no will of his own? You are a fool,
Charlotte. Lie with him instead of me!' I laughed at her, and seeing the pain in her eyes, I laughed more.
'I should like to see it, you and your daimon. Lie there and call him to come now.
Anne Rice
#53. What need have I for a palace? Rather to lie with you where the weeds grow thick.
Murasaki Shikibu
#54. in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw. Before
William Maxwell
#55. It was so useful to lie with the truth.
Tanith Lee
#56. If you tell one lie, you have to tell more to keep the first lie alive. A story is a good lie with an exit strategy.
Kelvin Kwa
#57. You know better than I, Monsieur,' said he, 'that to lie with a girl is only to make her do what pleases her; there is often a great distance between that and making her do what we want.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#58. Truth had never been a priority. If believing a lie kept the genes proliferating, the system would believe that lie with all its heart.
Peter Watts
#59. Did you think I was as blind as Father?" Tyrion rubbed his cheek. "Who you lie with is no matter to me ... although it doesn't seem quite just that you should open your legs for one brother and not the other.
George R R Martin
#60. Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.
Edwidge Danticat
#61. The monster you lie with is your own. The struggle is endlessly private. I thought it was over. That one night the beast at my back would squeeze more tightly and I would cease breathing. What remained of me hoped for it.
Adam Haslett
#62. 1. In the end, as much as the responsibility seems to lie with Beijing, it also lies with the global consumer. Our appetite for the $30 DVD player and the $3 T-shirt helps keep jewelry factories filled with dust, illegal mines open and 16-year-olds working past midnight. We all pay the China price.
Alexandra Harney
#63. Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the sweet bird's throat;
Come hither, come hither, come hither.
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
William Shakespeare
#64. Time flies, dreams die, people lose faith,
Tryna hide behind a lie with a straight face.
Xzibit
#66. Lie with me," she said.
"I don't know if I can sleep beside ye tonight and not touch ye like I want to," he said in a strained voice. "I need ye too much."
"I know that," she said, and flipped back the blanket for him to lie down.
Margaret Mallory
#67. The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.
Frank Lampard
#68. My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#69. when a person tells a lie, he simultaneously has to know the truth, concoct the lie, and rapidly analyze the consistency of this lie with previously known facts.
Michio Kaku
#70. I wonder what I will do if she doesn't wake up, and I don't have an answer. As I lie back down next to her and pull her into my arms, my stomach growls, and suddenly I know exactly what I will do. If she doesn't wake up, then I will just lie with her until I don't wake up either.
Shay Savage
#71. We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
Martin Luther
#73. He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.
Holly Black
#74. The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
Joanna Scott
#75. The only thing you can do to make me that angry is to lie with another man" ~ Raphael, Guild Hunter, Nalini Singh
Nalini Singh
#76. I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That's what I hope to find myself in, in the future.
Kris Holden-Ried
#77. If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.
Wu Guanzhong
#78. I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.
Jean Reno
#79. The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas
#80. The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
Ellen Hopkins
#81. Finally, we can accept this stunning, irrevocable truth: Our Lord can lift us from deep despair and cradle us midst any care. We cannot tell him anything about aloneness or nearness! ... He who cannot lie, will atteast to our adequacy with the warm words, Well Done.
Neal A. Maxwell
#82. If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.
Marina And The Diamonds
#83. No more, then, shall he infest the saints, no, nor rule the wicked, but he with them, and they with him, shall lie under the immediate execution of God's wrath. For
William Gurnall
#84. Problem does not lie in being a husband; the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy).
Dada Bhagwan
#85. But what [Gansey] said was, "I'm going to need everyone to be straight with each other from now on. No more games. This isn't just for Blue, either. All of us."
Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied, "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told."
Blue said, "Okay.
Maggie Stiefvater
#87. And I suppose you're going to sit beside me every single class?"
"I don't know. You seem like an angry student. I'm not sure I want the prof associating me with you.
K.A. Tucker
#88. The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism is hostile to religion is a lie.
Adolf Hitler
#90. The dictators of the world say that if you tell a lie often enough, why, people will believe it. Well, if you tell the truth often enough, they'll believe it and go along with you.
Harry Truman
#91. Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie ... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.
Francis Ford Coppola
#92. 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
#93. Who'll come lie down in the dark with me
Belly to belly and knee to knee
Who'll look into my hooded eye
Who'll lie down under my darkened thigh?
Allen Ginsberg
#94. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become people - but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.
Neil Gaiman
#95. If a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
Agnes Repplier
#96. His mind, cool, alert, watched it sink there with a sort of vague concern at the absurdity of the occupation, till it rested at the bottom, deep down, where our unexpressed longings lie.
Joseph Conrad
#97. Shams is a trumpet note of light
that starts the atoms spinning,
a wind that comes at dawn
tasting of bread and salt.
Move to the edge and over. Fly with the wings
he gives, and if you get tired, lie down,
but keep opening inside your soul.
Rumi
#98. Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the web of a great Spider, binds us subtly to what is near, ensnares us in a fragile cradle of slow death, where we lie rocking in the wind.
Fernando Pessoa
#99. The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.
Angela Carter
#100. Sharing pillow talk with the wrong people can make a hard bed to lie on, and will surely lead to nightmares in your relationship.
Carlos Wallace
