Top 100 Lied Quotes
#1. For a long time, to obtain enterprise customers, I concealed the fact that I owned the company. I never lied about it, but I never volunteered that information. My business card didn't even have a title
Rebecca Enonchong
#2. The truth is, I'd lied to him. I loved the book. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever read.
Anonymous
#3. have lied to him. I've already planned on becoming the weird,
AnnaLisa Grant
#4. Hearts don't realize they've been lied to. They still love anyway.
Abbi Glines
#5. No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#6. If you say that you have never lied at all,
then you give too much trust on anybody.
Toba Beta
#7. He said to the cardinal, I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life.
Mario Puzo
#8. Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive
Madeleine Albright
#9. I'm a big supporter of the military simply because I'm the daughter of a Polish immigrant who fled Europe during World War II from Poland and lied about his age to join the Army simply because he was proud to be an American. And who isn't?
Cindy Morgan
#10. No one, by swearing, makes themselves an ounce more honest; any more than a man makes himself wealthy by counting his gold. Oaths may make a liar a liar yet again, having lied about the oath as well. But it cannot alter the worth of an honest man's word.
Jake Yaniak
#11. The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams to misjudge their players, and mismanage their games.
Michael Lewis
#12. I took a deep breath. I'm sorry I lied, I like your Star Wars sheets, you're not that bad of a driver, and I swear on my Very Cherry lip gloss that I will never lie to you again.
Gemma Halliday
#13. He kept his promises. He never wanted to abandon anyone the way he'd been abandoned and lied to.
Rick Riordan
#14. That was wonderful," Natasha lied.
"Not half; you are brilliant. Can I fuck you up the arse later?
D.M. Blowers
#15. Okay, I've lied to him. But you saw how jealous he gets. It makes me feel like I have to. And I shouldn't defend my right to be friends with another guy.
Stephanie Perkins
#16. Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.
Louis C.K.
#17. Every time I lied to my dad I felt like I was going up against the Supreme Court justices and pleading my case.
Claire Contreras
#18. I have done a number of things to keep this man. I have lied and cheated. I have been sexy and meek, fierce and vulnerable. I have been everything but myself.
Tarryn Fisher
#19. There is nothing that makes a man grow beyond his stature than a woman telling him she loves him. and however much she might have lied to him, there will always be a part of him that is grateful to her for this, and that will harbour some love for her.
Jo Nesbo
#20. Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have never had sex outside of marriage and never lied about their sex lives either denying or exaggerating!
Patricia Ireland
#21. Oh, hello, Matt,' she said, not looking altogether thrilled to see me. 'This is James Sanderson.'
'Pleased to meet you,' I lied.
Kenneth Oppel
#22. I lied. I need your help." "Who are we killing?" "Do you have a pen?
Ilona Andrews
#23. I've lied all my life. I'm just now learning how to tell the truth, and I'm not going to start playing games again, especially not with you.
Collette West
#24. He lied, Jenny thought, racing up the steps. He changed the rules and he lied. Sometimes you can't return good for evil; sometimes evil simply has to be stopped.
L.J.Smith
#25. I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter to fight, or to go yourself. So often, we are lied to and manipulated by our governments for their own very cynical reasons.
Paul Haggis
#26. Someone ought to write a novel about me," said Lebedeva loftily. "I shouldn't care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can't abide a poor liar.
Catherynne M Valente
#27. He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.
Josh Lanyon
#28. Leo's smile widened into a toothy grin. "We shall see," he said, "come. You have persuaded me into giving you a trial." We should have turned and ran away then, and saved ourselves a world of pain and grief. But we were not to know the future, or that Felix's fate-stones had lied to him.
David Pilling
#30. Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
H.L. Mencken
#31. Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.
Paulo Coelho
#32. I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example.
Lynsey Addario
#33. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.
Bertrand Russell
#34. I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead.
Marlen Haushofer
#35. The cut in Nick's arm was starting to throb dully with the pressure he was putting on it. He kept looking at Alan. 'How many times have you lied to me?' he asked in a soft voice.
Alan replied, equally softly, 'I've lost count.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#36. After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.
Sandra Bullock
#37. We cannot make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied about this to Congress and the American people about it day after day after day.
Chris Christie
#38. The eye hath ruined me,' the heart complained. 'The heart has lost me,' the eye replied. I know not which told the truth, which lied Between, the two, it was Meer who died.
Khushwant Singh
#39. The two of them were at a table, eating cereal. The kind with lots of marshmallows that lied and said it was good for you on the package.
James Dashner
#40. Looks delicious," he lied. "A mite crispy along the edges - but then, I like it that way."
Incredulous eyes met his own. "You like your potatoes burned?"
Ah, so he'd been right about that. If he could still recognize what it was she'd cooked, then surely he could eat it.
Tracy Anne Warren
#41. You lied to me."
"I never lied. I just didn't tell you the whole truth."
"You said you were alone."
"I am alone."
"There's hundreds of you. Maybe thousands. You and your 'family' are everywhere."
"Just because you're standing in a crowd doesn't mean you belong there." -Yukiko and Kin
Jay Kristoff
#42. If one lied, or put you down, don't mourn don't grieve, for why do you care, you don't want to be friends with the mean.
Zoe Rosenberg
#43. There's nothing that a liar hates more than finding out that another liar has lied to them.
Alan Bradley
#44. You lied to me!"
"You're going to have to be more specific. What did I lie to you about this time?
Gina Damico
#45. Fascism is aided and advanced by the apathy of those who are tired of being conned and lied to by a bankrupt liberal establishment, whose only reason to vote for a politician or support a political party is to elect the least worst. This, for many voters, is the best Clinton can offer.
Chris Hedges
#46. If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
Agatha Christie
#49. Who neither touched nor spoke?
whose nape, whose finger-ends
nervelessly lied the hours away?
Adrienne Rich
#50. I know you told me you thought you'd be okay being a secret, and I thought I'd be all right with it too. But I've lied to my family enough. I feel like a spineless asshole. I don't want to hide anymore.
Lisa Kessler
#51. How did you find out?" "I listened. I lied. The normal things anyone would do who wanted to know something hidden.
Daniel Abraham
#52. The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
Jeremiah Wright
#53. As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that's unique and that's not Arthur's fault. It's not a flaw of Arthur's. It's a flaw of these two guys.
Bernard Marcus
#54. I can't know if she lied about Sohtyr or not. Maybe she did trick us, I don't know. But what I do know is that I have to go after her." "Damn," Leth said. "It must be so confusing to be you."
V.R. Cardoso
#55. They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.
Sidney Sheldon
#56. I know Vladimir Putin. He respects strength. He lied to our president's [Barack Obama] face; didn't both to tell him about warplanes and troops going into Syria. We need to speak to him from a position of strength.
Carly Fiorina
#57. He lied about that. He didn't want to annoy you. He's a slitherer-outer, if you know what I mean, Your Majesty.
Diana Wynne Jones
#58. She lied not from a desire to deceive but in order to correct reality and mitigate the absurdity that struck her world and mine.
Kamel Daoud
#59. MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell is saying Donald Trump lied when he said he made $20 million a year off his 'Apprentice' series on NBC. NBC also denied Trump's claim, saying, 'We don't have $20 million. We're NBC.'
Jimmy Fallon
#60. The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
Barbra Streisand
#61. Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. If you do not want to be lied to, then you need to stop following politics.
Steven Magee
#63. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this yo your face, I couldn't make myself go.
Cassandra Clare
#64. We have no basis to conclude she [Hillary Clinton] lied to the FBI.
James Comey
#65. The media has outright lied on me. They reported that I called myself Osama's [Bin Laden] 'sex slave,' apparently unaware that sex slaves aren't allowed to look their master in the eye, write poetry with him or go on hunting excursions with him.
Kola Boof
#66. I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
Iman
#67. I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either.
Art Modell
#68. My husband may have his faults, but he has never lied to me.
Hillary Clinton
#69. I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.
Sean Penn
#70. I'd give anything if you'd kiss me." I said. "I mean," I said when he tilted his head to look at me, his eyes wide in shock, "I've kissed guys before. It's like a handshake these days," I lied, just wanting to know what his lips on mind would feel like. "Almost required if you're leaving.
Kim Harrison
#72. Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.
James Carville
#73. The same principle applies - the only difference is that this is the one area in which I'm just as spotless as you are. Can't I leave one rule unbroken?"
"One?"
"You know that I've stolen, I've lied, I've coveted ... My virtue is all I have left.
Stephenie Meyer
#74. I'm not saying I'm number 1, oh sorry I lied.. I'm number 1,2,3,4 and 5
KRS-One
#75. I lied to you and it was easy, because you believe everybody means what they say. Everyone's lying to you, Neverfell. Everyone. And you can't tell, because you're just not very bright when it comes to people. Brighten up fast, or you're done for.
Frances Hardinge
#76. He's the one guy I can credit for making me think about marriage in a whole new light, because every guy I've had in my life has either lied or cheated me financially or business-wise, or taken advantaged of me.
Christina Aguilera
#78. He asked if there were more things she had lied about. She said she had to think. She said she was still thinking. After about two minutes she said she was still thinking.
Tao Lin
#79. When I was little, my mom told me that if I lied, the devil would visit me in my sleep. To this day, if I tell even the smallest lie, I have bad dreams. Plus, I'm no good at it.
Shannen Doherty
#80. I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter's son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter -
J.K. Rowling
#81. We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.
Ayn Rand
#82. It's nearly full dark. We should go."
"We? I thought you were going to leave me alone."
"I lied," Jace said without a shred of embarrassment.
Cassandra Clare
#83. I know I said that I always choose the anticlimactic over the irrevocable, and yes of course what I meant was that I have always been a coward, but I lied: not always, there was that night, there was that one time.
Tana French
#84. His were the kind of eyes that held secrets. The kind that lied without flinching. The kind that once you looked into them, it was hard to break away.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#85. You and I are more alike than you think," Alistair says.
"I don't see that at all," I say.
"Besides the fact that we both lied about our names," I add.
Carolyn MacCullough
#86. He lied the way a parent lies to you, the good lie that helps you go to sleep.
Rick Yancey
#87. If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts.
Robin Hobb
#88. The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.
Patrick Leahy
#89. Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest.
Bonnie McKee
#90. Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me.
Rosie Pugh
#91. Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.
Michael Cadnum
#92. From time to time
I once wondered how one wanders from time to time
And think up the paradox line
Speak of Epoch's crime
Oh I lied, it hasn't happened yet
But bet you better believe it's such a habit that
I just said that in a past mindset
Criss Jami
#93. Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.
Adam Riess
#94. A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It's weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.
Howard L. Salter
#95. Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren't being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.
Kenneth Eade
#96. Were you lying?"
"I never lie," he said piously. "About what?"
"The sand, the snake."
For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.
Megan Whalen Turner
#97. The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.
Dick Morris
#99. People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.
Jerry Seinfeld
#100. I lied to you about a lot of things," he finally said. She snorted. "But I meant every apology.
Marissa Meyer
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