Top 100 The Lie Quotes
#2. If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection.
Paul Auster
#3. He parked in a nearby street and walked out on to the bridge. Below him the lights of London spread away in a wash of low wattage, Their dimness gave the lie to the very vastless of the city. Bull heard its distant roar, its night-time sough, its terminal cough
Will Self
#4. I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Henrik Ibsen
#5. The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet.
Justin Cronin
#6. It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt.
Francis Bacon
#7. Listening to counsel or ways of thinking that are not according to the Truth is the first step in developing wrong beliefs that will ultimately place us in bondage. Once we have listened to the lie, the next step toward bondage is that we . . . DWELL ON THE LIE.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#8. Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds; parents need it to be able to get up the next morning.
Fredrik Backman
#9. the great thing about lying was people believed it so long as the lie was close enough to the truth. Lena
Karin Slaughter
#10. The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler
#11. Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.
Alexei Nikolaevich
#12. The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane - or put your children on a plane - if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks.
Rush Limbaugh
#13. The lie, of course, is more interesting.
John Irving
#14. There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.
Emma Lazarus
#15. Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
Stephen King
#16. The biggest deception of our digital age may be the lie that says we can be omni-competent, omni-informed, and omni-present. We cannot be any of these things. We must choose our absence, our inability, and our ignorance - and choose wisely.
Kevin DeYoung
#18. The lie detector didn't react to anything I said, but I wouldn't dare smile.
Embee
#19. And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into ...
Tennessee Williams
#20. We are the beasts that scheme, the predators that predict. We live by the lie, not by the truth; we study the truth only to shape more convincing lies that will bend other people to our will.
Orson Scott Card
#21. The ear doctor smiled reassuringly and spoke the lie for which doctors should be immediately jailed (time of incarceration to be doubled when the lie is told to a child): Relax, Stevie, this won't hurt.
Stephen King
#22. I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.
Esther Rolle
#23. If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.
Brennan Manning
#24. What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king.
Robert E. Howard
#25. How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even. p.498
Haruki Murakami
#26. Once you tell a lie, the truth is your enemy; and every truth connected to that truth, and every ally of truth in general; all of these you must oppose, to protect the lie. Whether you're lying to others, or to yourself.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#27. Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
George Orwell
#28. Fiction is the lie that illuminates a greater truth.
Kevin Fox
#29. Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#30. Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King
#31. Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?
Elie Wiesel
#33. The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
Robert Browning
#34. Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
Tim O'Brien
#35. Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like that, anyway. He's not even worth a lie.
David Levithan
#38. I have a friend who is an excellent liar. His secret: Believe the lie yourself when you're telling it.
Jack Heffron
#39. The lie was in his head, and any truth coming from his mouth carried the color of the lie.
John Steinbeck
#40. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
Gillian Flynn
#41. The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
R.C. Sproul
#42. 3. When the behavior changes occur in relation to a specific topic or question, that tells the lie catcher this could be a hot area to explore.
Paul Ekman
#43. No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.
Franz Kafka
#44. In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.
Theodore Roosevelt
#45. The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and when does it put us. How just by one religion a lot of people live in the lie!
Deyth Banger
#46. Too often have we believed the old lie that says we're bad, we're perverted, we're abominations. But those who spread the lie don't know. They don't know how we love, how we hurt, how we live.
William J. Mann
#47. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
Neil Gaiman
#48. Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
Teller
#49. Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.
George Deukmejian
#50. The truth is the earth's most perpetual commodity. The lie can be painted as wished, embellished in gold and silver, too. False witnesses and false truths can be provided to support it. But only the truth is unchanging.
Diana Khalil
#51. Sometimes everything you know in the world turns out to be a lie. But at the end of the day the lie isn't what matters, it's what you do after you tell it. If you work hard enough you can make it true.
Hope Estheim
#52. Orange Juice? Sure. Toast? Sure. One last time on the couch? Sure. Phone number? Sure. See you again? Oooh, absolutely. That was the lie I told. Probably not, that was the truth, that was that which went unspoken.
T. Scott McLeod
#54. It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.
Tim LaHaye
#55. So agressive, so much screaming, so cruel picture... But that's the truth, better the truth than the lie after a lie and a lie...
Deyth Banger
#57. You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth.
You can deny and avoid the truth. But you cannot destroy the truth. Nor can you make the lie true. You must know that love will always uncover the truth.
Delano Johnson
#58. Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Anais Nin
#59. The lie that happiness is about borrowing money you haven't got to buy crap you don't need," says Ian. "The lie that we live in a democratic state. And the most weaselly lie of all, that there is no class war.
David Mitchell
#60. One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
Ted Cruz
#61. They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.
Libba Bray
#62. Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
Oriana Fallaci
#63. When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
Charles Churchill
#64. Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.
Nikki Sixx
#65. Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control
LeCrae
#67. This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.
C.S. Lewis
#68. It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
Francis Bacon
#69. 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
#70. Generally, the lie is a denatured truth.Drama occurs when this truth is still nonexistent, and it must become exitent for the human being.
Marieta Maglas
#71. I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools,
Bowe Bergdahl
#72. I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star ... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
Lady Gaga
#73. It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
Ernest Becker
#74. It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.
Edward De Bono
#75. You have to believe the lie to live it, to make others see you the way you need to be seen.
J.D. Robb
#76. For malice will with joy the lie receive,
Report, and what it wishes true believe.
Thomas Yalden
#77. In a world of lies, the lie can never be defeated by its contrary, it can only be defeated by a world of truth
Anonymous
#78. Both the two of us knew it. We watched the lie go up big and slow between us, then it burst like a spit bubble. They always burst before too long.
Stephen Kelman
#79. If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.
V.S. Naipaul
#80. We think the future lies ahead, but its seed is contained in the present. There is no sharp break between the two: the lie we tell today can send us sprawling a year from now; the way we treat our infant determines the way he treats us when he reaches adolescence.
Sydney J. Harris
#81. She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.
Barry Lyga
#82. No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!
Leslie Pietrzyk
#83. Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.
Julianna Baggott
#84. We have too quickly bought into the lie that we'll be happier with more - and as a result, too often miss the joy that comes from owning less.
Joshua Becker
#85. Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?
Quentin Crisp
#86. But the lie had already buried itself inside of Scarlett, as lies that children are told often do.
Stephanie Garber
#87. Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you
Dermot Healy
#88. The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
H.L. Mencken
#90. With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie.
Billy Graham
#91. It's a lie, but it's the lie he needs. I'm going to hell.
Kiersten White
#93. Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
Giacomo Casanova
#94. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#95. We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#96. 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
#97. Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
George Orwell
#98. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." ~ John F. Kennedy
Tim O'Shea
#99. Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
Pablo Picasso
#100. Illusions... or real illusions. Within the illusions hide real illusions... from the real illusions, the illusions are created. Within the truth hides the lie... within the lie hides the truth. That is the Mist -Rokudo Mukuro
Akira Amano
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