Top 100 Sayings About A Lie
#1. When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#2. He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
Thomas Jefferson
#3. Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.
Maxwell Maltz
#4. Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.
Jeremy Taylor
#5. The truth is always the truth, although if a lie has been repeated enough, especially by a figure of authority, the general population will begin to see those lies as truth.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#6. P.J. said, "That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know."
"Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it."
"Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others.
Joyce Carol Oates
#7. The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. 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
#9. For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city's skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds.
Veronica Roth
#10. Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it ... when in fact, they didn't
Randy Pausch
#11. Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.
Plato
#12. FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
Ambrose Bierce
#13. You forsake all that you hold dear,
for a dream that is not your own;
you would rather live a lie
than live your life alone
Lang Leav
#15. And that's the problem. When you're
alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone
cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody
out.
But it's a lie.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#17. A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
Joseph Conrad
#18. The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don't really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.
Seanan McGuire
#19. I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a lie. It is also to cease to be. My acceptance of despair and emptiness constitutes my being; to have the courage to accept despair is to be.
Michael Novak
#20. It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#21. All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Robert Southey
#22. The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.
Mira Grant
#23. 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
#24. Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.
Paul Hoffman
#25. It must be a burden, not even being able to say you were just obeying orders." "Well, that is always a lie, or a sign you are fighting for an unworthy cause, or still have a very long way to develop civilizationally.
Iain M. Banks
#26. ...the assertion that you live in a lie while I live in the truth is the most cruel thing one person can say to another...
Leo Tolstoy
#27. He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.
Alethea Kontis
#29. Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to
live at all.
Ernest Becker
#30. Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
Donald Sutherland
#31. Juanita believes that nothing is provably true or provably false in the Bible. Because if it's provably false, then the Bible is a lie, and if it's provably true, then the existence of God is proven and there's no room for faith.
Neal Stephenson
#32. I cannot tell a lie. It was me who
chopped down the cherry tree. Now that
I've been so honest, make me a
precedent. No, not president. I said
precedent.
Ali Smith
#33. You are who you are, there's nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie.
Amy Lee
#34. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. Don't look up to people, don't be someone's following.
Now a days everything you see is just a lie,
Instead be the person you want to follow.
Akash Lakhotia
#36. I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#37. A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
Adlai Stevenson I
#38. Who came up with the idea that telling the truth is easy? That's already a lie.
Dmitry Glukhovsky
#40. Like the dark clouds above that promised rain but withheld it, her presence there was a lie. For in truth, this horrific slaughter had already damned the small race; their fate had already come and gone.
S.J. Pow
#41. Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
Samuel Johnson
#42. We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose."
"Is that a lie?"
"It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.
Sheri S. Tepper
#43. 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
#44. Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?
Bruce Springsteen
#45. I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
Henrik Ibsen
#47. If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred to protect a lie.
Mark Hart
#48. I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.
Alison Goodman
#49. Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.
Margaret Weis
#51. A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
Saul Williams
#52. A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.
Edwin W. Rice
#53. Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.
Russell Brand
#54. That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.
Lacey Alexander
#55. In other words, the claim I believe in God is nothing but a lie if it is not manifest in our lives, because one only believes in God insofar as one loves.
Peter Rollins
#56. I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
Billy Graham
#57. The truth is a fragile thing, but a lie, well told, can live forever. " - Mark Twain
Rebecca Nugent
#58. You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.
Kathleen Hanna
#59. I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#60. I knew how easy it was to make people believe a lie, but I didn't expect the same people, confronted with the lie, would choose it over the truth. . . . No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie.
M. LaMar Keene
#61. Evil is predictable.' A lie. Because sometimes evil was an insidious thief that crept in and stole what you most treasured, leaving only echoes against a wall.
A thin shadow, swinging almost gently. Like on a swing.
Nalini Singh
#62. In other words, stop judging yourself against shiny people. Avoid the shiny people. The shiny people are a lie.
Jenny Lawson
#63. Unwind my riddle.Cruel as hawks the hours fly;Wounded men seldom come home to die;The hard waves see an arm flung high;Scorn hits strong because of a lie;Yet there exists a mystic tie.Unwind my riddle.
Stephen Crane
#64. An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
Billy Sunday
#65. A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them ...
George R R Martin
#67. 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
#68. The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
Damon Albarn
#69. Some people say it's easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory.
Virginia Vayna
#70. It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.
D.C. Fontana
#71. A lie is not a lie if you don't know you're lying.
Dima Zales
#72. One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain
#73. Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'."
(on Lillian Hellman)
Mary McCarthy
#74. I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.
Tiger Woods
#75. You look great," he said.
It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house."
He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.
Kristin Hannah
#76. Every touch a lie. I have paid her so much false coin that she half thinks she's rich.
George R R Martin
#77. One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.
Virginia Postrel
#79. the truth may hurt initially, but it heals much better than the rigid scar caused by a lie!
Candice Dow
#80. I believe there are two ways of concealing a secret: 1. Leave no trace of it. 2. Replace it with a lie.
So which option did you choose, Mr.President?
Sambhav Ratnakar
#81. Even if it's a lie, even if it's a dream, please turn to me.
Koushun Takami
#82. [ ... ] one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.
George Perkins Marsh
#84. It's a lie, but it's the lie he needs. I'm going to hell.
Kiersten White
#85. Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.
Bill Johnson
#86. Living a lie tore at one's being and leaked out in the oddest of places.
Kim Harrison
#88. People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
Terry Goodkind
#89. 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
#90. I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
Conor Oberst
#91. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it. Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip. Bury the liars and the wicked under stones until they say no more. More weight, hallelujah.
Joe Hill
#92. It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
Ben Jonson
#93. Tobin's just a guy - like a ton of guys. Even as I run those words through my head, trying to convince myself, I know it's a lie. Tobin will never be just a guy. Not to me. And he shouldn't be just a guy to anyone who meets him or to anyone else that's lucky enough to love him.
Jolene Perry
#94. The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.
Suzan Shown Harjo
#95. O Charidas, what of the under world?"
"Great darkness."
"And what of the resurrection?"
"A lie."
"And Pluto?"
"A fable; we perish utterly.
Callimachus
#96. If i believe my truth is true and you believe your truth is true,what if my truth says yours is a lie.is it still true?
Lecrea
#97. There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could.
Jack Kirby
#98. 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
#99. But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear ...
You are in the city of lies.
Arlene J. Chai
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