Top 94 Quotes On Telling A Lie
#1. And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
William Faulkner
#2. 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
#3. I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
James Taylor
#5. So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.
Sun Myung Moon
#6. Denial may be neither a matter of telling the truth nor intentionally telling a lie. There seem to be states of mind, or even whole cultures, in which we know and don't know at the same time.
Stanley Cohen
#7. Promises are like silly jokes, told around a table when the food is good and no one has anything to lose by telling a lie or two - lies should have been a synonym for the word 'promise' in dictionaries, but only a few people knew it.
Cameron Jace
#8. There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.
Cecil Parker
#9. With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.
Mike Rinder
#10. I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
Ken Livingstone
#11. Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.
Judith Viorst
#12. If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
George Bernard Shaw
#13. telling a Lie meant no less than totally altering the universe. This
Terry Pratchett
#14. If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#15. Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.
Robert Breault
#16. Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.
Paulo Coelho
#17. I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.
Samuel Johnson
#18. If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
Satchel Paige
#19. What I know?
I know that you lie too often + every strugle or move you have made is telling a lot of about you.
Deyth Banger
#20. If you tell me the truth, the truth I'll proclaim.
If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game.
Belva Rae Staples
#21. So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else.
Meg Rosoff
#22. He wouldn't try to make her feel better about something if it meant telling her a lie.
Luanne Rice
#23. I have a friend who is an excellent liar. His secret: Believe the lie yourself when you're telling it.
Jack Heffron
#24. Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#25. Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.
Joanna Scott
#26. You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.
Bryant McGill
#27. Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.
Mango Wodzak
#28. Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
Keith Henson
#29. It was the most important moment in human history, the telling of the first lie. That's what separates us from the other animals. It has nothing to do with humans thinking on a higher plane or having easily available credit. We lie to each other. We deliberately mislead.
Michael Robotham
#30. There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.
Richard Gere
#31. What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
Robert Redford
#32. First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white.
Anthony Hemingway
#33. I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just ... that's just telling yourself a lie.
Frank Ocean
#34. While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#35. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#36. Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.
T.R. Wallace
#37. Since this is a hard and sad truth for the telling; those whom nature has sacrificed to her ends
her mysterious ends that often lie hidden
are sometimes endowed with a vast will to loving, with an endless capacity for suffering also, which must go hand in hand with their love. p 146
Radclyffe Hall
#38. Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry Truman
#39. When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
Christopher Moore
#40. Who came up with the idea that telling the truth is easy? That's already a lie.
Dmitry Glukhovsky
#42. Thais looked up from the book. For a moment he considered telling Kathel he didn't really see anything, but knew it would do no good to lie. "The book recognized me." Honesty won out. "Of course it did," Kathel said sarcastically. "Does it want a kiss hello?"
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance
Madison Thorne Grey
#43. If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.
Richard Belzer
#44. An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.
John Steinbeck
#45. Defend the truth with all you might so that the people of the future do not learn a lie.
Auliq Ice
#46. It was after 2:00 A.M. before we got back to the graveyard. The Feds had kept us forever, like they didn't believe we were telling them the whole truth. Fancy that. I hated being accused of concealing evidence when I wasn't. Made me want to lie to them just so they wouldn't be disappointed.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#47. I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true
Lady Gaga
#48. I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Shakira
#49. When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.
Rick Pitino
#50. I said you lie, knave!" shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. "And for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!"
The knight looked plaintively at Roger. "What's wrong with this fellow?"
He was dropped on his head when he was a baby," answered Roger.
Gerald Morris
#51. It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're useless at telling the truth. You get left with no way to tell what's the real fake and what's the fake one.
Tana French
#52. The biggest lie is the idea that we are entitled to a meaningful and coherent summarizing, a conclusion, of something which never concludes. In that regard, this is the lie I'm telling myself so I don't set fire to anything.
David Milch
#53. The lie is a weak wepon you attack and pucn and kick the damage is weak. But the truth makes headshot, there is such people just by telling the truth you can devastate them!
Deyth Banger
#54. Loving Felix she'd acquired from him a certain arrogance, telling so many lies she'd acquired a zest for lies and quite preferred them to the truth. For a lie had to be invented, "truth" was common property.
Joyce Carol Oates
#55. An upset is our maker's way of telling us that we need to learn something. It is a tap on our shoulder saying, 'Pay attention. You have something important to learn. If you lie, blame, justify, or deny the upset, you waste the upset and will waste a precious gem of wisdom.'" Rich
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#56. I pull her closer toward me, telling myself I'm only doing it to steady her. It's a lie. I want her heat, her smell, the feel of her body pressed against mine.
N.E. Henderson
#57. When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
Tayari Jones
#58. Besides, is it really a lie when the person you're telling it to knows you aren't being truthful in the first place?
Paige Shelton
#59. If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.
Harry S. Truman
#60. Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.
P. J. O'Rourke
#61. That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#62. When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
Gautama Buddha
#63. She wanted to have him hold her and tell her all the demons were pretend, that there was no monster in her closet, that everything would be okay. But that was a lie. The demon was in her head, telling her she was too fat. She had to get the demon out. But she couldn't do it by herself.
Jackie Morse Kessler
#64. Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
Lenny Bruce
#65. People kept on calling. At first Armando told them that Jeff was in the bathroom. Then, when people started telling him that Jeff was in the bathroom a lot, he started telling them that Jeff had Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Mark Wilkins
#66. [On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.
Benazir Bhutto
#67. It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves - that you could have magic without monsters.
Anne Ursu
#68. If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.
Margot Livesey
#69. Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.
Donna Lynn Hope
#71. Becky!" I had to laugh. "You're worse than me! It's no wonder he's such an egomaniac."
"What? You're telling me you can say no to that face?"
I wanted to say yes, but it would have been a lie and we all knew it.
Kelly Oram
#72. Thus, all sane moralists admit that one may sometimes tell a lie; but no sane moralist would approve of telling a little boy to practise telling lies, in case he might one day have to tell a justifiable one.
G.K. Chesterton
#73. Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor
James Grady
#74. Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn
Abbi Glines
#75. Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.
Tom Waits
#77. I can't stand lies. Probably no one can. Probably everyone is, to varying degrees, allergic to them, both spiritually and physically. Lies make me feel low and ignoble, and also itchy, like there's sand under my skin. The only thing that feels worse than hearing a lie is telling one.
Marisa De Los Santos
#78. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H.L. Mencken
#79. We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do.
Paul Kingsnorth
#80. It's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. women thikn that survival depends on conformity. but for some women, conformity is death. it's a death to the soul. the soul, "she said, "is a precious thing. when you live a lie, you damage the soul.
Candace Bushnell
#81. If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.
William H. Ginsburg
#82. All of us can lie but it is not a must that we should lie.
Auliq Ice
#83. I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
Thornton Wilder
#84. Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail.
Shaun Tan
#85. It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.
George Harrison
#86. Hemingway should have stayed in the Midwest. He ruined things for the rest of us, telling all those lies. The lie about courage, the lie about every red-blooded male needing to kill a bull or climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
Francine Prose
#87. And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you lie, the greater is the humiliation.
Osyp Nazaruk
#88. 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
#89. Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.
Saki
#90. Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie.
William Shakespeare
#91. Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.
Jonathan Maberry
#92. It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.
David Shore
#93. A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.
Nadeem Aslam
#94. Once a lie is told, you have to keep on telling it. You not only have to repeat it time and time again, you have to embellish it, layer upon layer until you don't even remember the truth.
Cassie Dandridge Selleck
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