Top 100 To Lie Quotes
#1. It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
Tom Clancy
#2. Animals are inspirational. They don't know how to lie. They are natural forces.
Charles Bukowski
#3. Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.
Margaret Atwood
#4. slept at all. I didn't want to think how it would feel, to lie trapped in a bed you couldn't get out of with only dark thoughts to keep you company through the small hours.
Jojo Moyes
#5. 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
#6. do I look like the kind of girl to lie back demurely so my gentleman friend can politely slip his penis inside my vagina? I think not." He
E.J. Shortall
#7. [The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.
Winston Churchill
#8. I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.
Jenny Eclair
#9. And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
Mark Strand
#10. I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you."
"I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, "
or the best. Now I'm all confused.
Tamora Pierce
#11. It seems too easy to lie in the moment but you always have to tell more lies on top of it to cover your tracks.
Candace Cameron
#12. I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'
Sophia Amoruso
#13. How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it ...
Joey Barton
#14. To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
Anais Nin
#15. It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.
James MacDonald
#16. I haven't prepared my speech yet," I sighed and Tove stood up. "What should I say about him?" "Well, if you plan to say anything nice, you're going to have to lie," Tove muttered as he walked over to his closet.
Amanda Hocking
#17. I'm not going to lie: There are times I play mind tricks on myself, like that the French fries are poison. With desserts, I'll let myself have just one bite, but I'll look like a freak when I'm eating it, like when I did Duncan Hines commercials as a kid, just savoring every morsel.
Fergie
#18. I lie in the dirt and pretend his words about my love don't hurt, but they slice me like the ice cold winds of winter. It takes all of the power I have left to lie there quietly and not remind him of the promises he has not kept.
Inger Iversen
#20. Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.
Dustin Hoffman
#21. The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.
David McCullough
#22. We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
Patrick Ness
#23. One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;
Mark Twain
#24. Thus, thus, truly thus: a mind so blind and sick, so base and ill-mannered, desires to lie hidden, but does not wish that anything should be hidden from it.
Jeff Wheeler
#25. Lopez reached into his pocket, took out a small packet of white lozenges, and popped one into his mouth. He didn't offer one to Holden. Lopez's pupils contracted to tiny points as he sucked the lozenge. Focus drugs. He'd be watching every tic of Holden's face during questioning. Tough to lie to.
James S.A. Corey
#26. 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
#27. A doorman opened the door for me and I went in. The lobby was not quite as big as the Yankee Stadium. It was floored with a pale blue carpet with sponge rubber underneath. It was so soft it made me want to lie down and roll.
Raymond Chandler
#28. Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary
Napoleon Hill
#29. To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
Francis Quarles
#30. I want to lie down in the grass on the sidewalk and I want to run and keep running.
Marlon James
#31. I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I'm working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They're the best tools for working that I have.
Mark Ruffalo
#32. Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
John Gay
#33. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other.
Anonymous
#35. I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
Kahlil Gibran
#36. My sister, Judy, has always said that she would like to lie in state, propped up in her coffin with her eyes blared wide open, face fixed in a big grin, and have a taped greeting for all her mourners. Something real upbeat and, well, live-sounding, like: 'He-e-e-ey!Cuteshoestellyomamahi!
Jill Conner Browne
#37. To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, Phenobarbital,
Helen Sword
#38. A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.
Geoffrey West
#39. I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.
Penelope Cruz
#40. For her it had always been easy to apologize. It was simple to admit her mistakes because otherwise they seemed to lie across her lap paralyzing her until she said those two words. Then her blunder flew away to the trees where all wrong deeds lived after being made right.
Sarah Noffke
#41. Horned lizards shoot jets of blood from their eyes for distances of up to 5 feet. I don't know why they do this because whenever I reach the phrase "shoot jets of blood from their eyes" in an article I just stop there and stare at it until I need to lie down.
Randall Munroe
#42. The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.
William Thompson
#43. They can hear lies, he realized. But not thoughts. He could hide things, he didn't have to lie. Silence could be his shield.
Anthony Ryan
#44. In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
Bahman Ghobadi
#45. To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
Victor Hugo
#46. Damen knew that he had to lie. It was beyond dangerous to talk about this with Laurent.
C.S. Pacat
#47. She wasn't going to lie and she wasn't going to try to hide Terrible or who he was. She loved him and he was hers, and that made her so proud her chest hurt, and if anybody didn't like it they could go fuck themselves.
Stacia Kane
#48. The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?
Jef I. Richards
#49. People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.
Alex Gibney
#50. I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.
Sara Gruen
#51. Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?
J.M. Coetzee
#52. It's a mistake to lie to a librarian, you know. Some people assume we're shy and gullible, but we know how to dig up the dirt.
Virginia Lowell
#53. Nobody told me you were cheating, it's just a feeling I had. So if I'm right, you got to lie to me, then I won't feel so bad.
Brook Benton
#54. Oh, I would say, you've never understood me, Harry, that not out of vengeance have I accomplished all my sins but because something has always been close to dying in my soul, and I've sinned only in order to lie down in darkness and find, somewhere in the net of dreams, a new father, a new home.
William Styron
#55. I'm always looking for the comfiest place to lie down, like a cat.
Naomie Harris
#57. The biggest mistake a person can make is to lie to an engineer about a subject that they specialize in.
Steven Magee
#58. You were sleeping?" said Princess One.
"No," I said. "Sometimes I just like to lie in the dark for hours with my eyes closed.
Melissa Kantor
#59. Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science.
Charles Lyell
#61. I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
Yancy Butler
#62. People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.
Errol Morris
#63. You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream, and says, 'Don't tell your mother.' You teach the child to lie - and to disrespect the other parent.
Howie Mandel
#65. Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.
David Copperfield
#66. Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.
Suzanne Collins
#67. To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Emile M. Cioran
#68. She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of two puppies who have just stumbled into their first puddle and not yet come to understand what has happened to them and found that she wanted to lie extravagantly.
Anna Godbersen
#69. Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.
Woodrow Wyatt
#70. NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
Horace Mann
#71. 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
#72. Sometimes it helps to lie. You tell yourself a story, even if you don't know the ending.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#73. You will be amazed to find how easy it is to lie, even to those you love best.
Alice Hoffman
#74. It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it.
Marisha Pessl
#75. Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning
Jean Kerr
#76. When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
Patricia Sun
#77. The mind lies using words. The heart has no words with which to lie. It conveys only truth.
Jeanne Watatsuki Houston
#78. I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.
Bill Burr
#79. Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.
Martin Amis
#80. With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.
Gao Xingjian
#81. As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. - Scarlett
Margaret Mitchell
#82. It was so useful to lie with the truth.
Tanith Lee
#83. If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.
Joseph M. Schenck
#84. I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.
Michael Jackson
#85. My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.
Eric Stoltz
#86. Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.
Patrick Ness
#87. I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
Kaley Cuoco
#88. That's probably what had drawn me to Regina, the way she made me feel like I didn't have to lie.
Barack Obama
#89. I'm not going to lie to you fellas, I've been drinking
Artie Lange
#90. She wishes he would come to her tonight, climb in through the window to lie down beside her and explain how it's possible to love someone so much and still manage to carry on when you have to let them go.
Alice Hoffman
#91. What need have I for a palace? Rather to lie with you where the weeds grow thick.
Murasaki Shikibu
#92. After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to set any event down in print is immediately to begin to lie about it, thank goodness; and that it's no less absurd and presumptuous to try on the skin of a bank teller than that of a Bigfoot or a dragon.
Peter S. Beagle
#93. I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
William Wyler
#94. The message is now seared in my mind: To tell the truth is to lie; to lie is to tell the truth.
Chris Lemig
#95. I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.
Nick Jonas
#96. The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Plato
#97. He had to lie to himself about life, pretend it was less hard than it really was, and then press forward by one slippery means or another, all the while deluding himself into believing that he was conquering the world.
Dean Koontz
#98. I appreciate both men and women. I love the female body and truly appreciate the female form. I really enjoy sketching women, especially their backs. I definitely need a man in the bedroom, however-a nice strong chest to lie on. Still, I want to explore. Never say never.
Miranda Kerr
#99. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not being forced out. It is what it is. I have no reason to lie.
Mike Hargrove
#100. Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.
Tad Williams
