Top 100 You Lie Quotes
#1. His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"
But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
Lois Lowry
#2. You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life ... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies ... !!!
Abhijeet Sawant
#3. When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.
Janny Wurts
#4. I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.
Leona Helmsley
#5. Here is what you do. You ease yourself into a tub of water, you ease yourself down. You lie back and wait for the ripples to smooth away. Then you take a deep breath, and slide your head under, and listen for the playfulness of your heart.
Amy Hempel
#6. I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.
Morrissey
#7. I'm not mad, though," Kat said. "You lied to me, and I lied to you. We're even."
Finally he lost the grin. "When did you lie?"
She gave him a Sweet'N Low smile, as if his amusement had been poured into her. "Every time we messed around. I didn't actually enjoy myself, if you know what I mean.
Gena Showalter
#9. When did we fall apart? or did you lie from the start?
Lesley Roy
#10. How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own 'safeside'?
Dada Bhagwan
#11. When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Jean Harlow
#12. I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.
River Phoenix
#13. If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.
John Spence
#14. But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies ...
Skylar Grey
#15. Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
John Philip Sousa
#16. Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down.
Dave Matthews
#17. If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.
Dane Cook
#18. Kane..." she hesitated. "I lied to you last night."
His green eyes searched her face. "What did you lie about?"
"When I said... when I said I didn't want to kiss you again." Her breath came out in an unsteady puff. "I lied.
Elle Kennedy
#19. You lie, just by the look of your face the muscles which you move I can understand this. But I can't understand why do you do that?
Deyth Banger
#20. We'll be alone in the hotel. Almost the only guests. You can rest all day and think of nothing, nothing. It doesn't matter who you are or how you got stuck here or where you're going next. You don't even have to move. You lie in the shade. I know you like to lie in the shade.
Anonymous
#21. And if you lie to a liar, is the sin somehow negated or reversed?
Lauren Oliver
#22. Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.
Joseph O'Neill
#23. XXIV
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never-"
"You lie" he cried
And ran on.
Stephen Crane
#24. When you lie things become harder to grasp, but honesty will take you right to the thing you desire.
Marty Vaughn
#25. Lying is easy. But it's lonely."
"What do you mean?"
"When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?"
"Nothing," I say.
"Exactly.
Victoria Schwab
#26. Republicans have pounced. They're outraged. They say, 'How dare you lie about caring for the people who got hurt in the war we lied them into?'
Bill Maher
#27. You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.
James M. Barrie
#28. Well you know you're really dedicated to something when you lie about being hurt so no one will make you stop
Richie McCaw
#29. Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it ... quite ... fascinating.
Margaret Weis
#30. You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, "What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?" Does that ever make you anxious?
Elaine May
#31. Why do you lie" I ask her.
"To block the truth."
Fair enough.
Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.
Rachel Cohn
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Don't lie. Life is a puzzle and we are all unique pieces. When you lie, you make it impossible to find your true place in the grand design.
Steve Maraboli
#35. Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?
Rumi
#36. In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.
Rachel Weisz
#37. Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.
Muhammad Ali
#38. How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?
Billy Bragg
#39. I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.
D.D. Barant
#40. You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.
Daniel Wallace
#41. See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#42. The monster you lie with is your own. The struggle is endlessly private. I thought it was over. That one night the beast at my back would squeeze more tightly and I would cease breathing. What remained of me hoped for it.
Adam Haslett
#43. And sometimes when you lie to me Sometimes I'll lie to you And there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives Aren't as bad as they seem But now I see blood and I hear people scream Then I wake up And it's just another bad dream . . .
Michael Grant
#44. Brastias. My friend." Uh-oh, this couldn't be good. "Do you lie to me?"
"Uh ... no."
"See? That's a lie!
G.A. Aiken
#45. This is what happens when you lie. Lies grow thin and steely and hard and become bars. Bars become a cage.
Leah Raeder
#46. Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
Tom Shadyac
#47. All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie,too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't.
Holly Black
#48. When you lie a rush of adrenaline to the capillaries in the nose causes it to itch. So people who are lying tend to involuntarily scratch it.
David Baldacci
#49. All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
Julian Barnes
#50. And we'll let the world dance around us while you lie here in my arms. The beat of your heart is all the music I need to hear. I spent my whole life searching for this melody, so I'll listen while I hold you near.
Courtney Giardina
#51. When you lie once, you have to make it uniform. We all know that.
Markus Zusak
#52. If you lie down and let somebody kick you, you're never going to get nowhere. You have to stand up.
Sonny Barger
#53. Oh, my Margaret
my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead
cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret
Margaret!
Elizabeth Gaskell
#54. White-flowered shrubs thickened around her and so did sleep; it directed her limbs. Lie down now, sleep said sweetly. Lie down. These are the secret hours of the day, the time that owls and bats take to themselves. The stars change places now; let them. You lie down.
Helen Oyeyemi
#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. Did you think I was as blind as Father?" Tyrion rubbed his cheek. "Who you lie with is no matter to me ... although it doesn't seem quite just that you should open your legs for one brother and not the other.
George R R Martin
#57. Human beings tend to be conservative,
so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.
Sonya Sones
#58. If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencer
#59. It's hard for anyone, no matter what their age, having a child and trying to make a career, but you survive. My mum always had the motto 'You made your bed, you lie in it' and I guess I had to take responsibility for myself.
Lisa Maffia
#60. You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.
Jodi Picoult
#61. Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart.
Robin McKinley
#62. Tell me you want me, too..Tell me you lie in bed at night and when you close your eyes, you see me. Because all I can see is you.
A.L. Jackson
#63. Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.
Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.
Joyce Cary
#64. Suffering and drama begin when you lie to yourself, even if you don't realize you are lying.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#65. Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.
Usain Bolt
#66. You're impossible. You're a murdering son-of-a-bitch. You get off on pain and control and fucking up peoples' lives. You lie through your teeth. You wouldn't know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls." ~ Muse to Akil
Pippa DaCosta
#67. Hey, if you don't want to tell me, don't. But I can tell when you lie."
Ok, that was super creepy. "You can?"
He smiled grimly down at the dirty dishwater. "Nope. But see? You fell for it anyway. Careful, or I'll read your mind with my incredible vampire superpowers.
Rachel Caine
#69. There's more to honesty than ... than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can't lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor -
Cassandra Clare
#70. But to paraphrase the ever-paraphraseable Freud, who said something to the effect that when you speak about the past you lie with every breath you take, I will say this: When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.
Rabih Alameddine
#71. I've learned, in my tragic little life, that memories are like water. Not solid, like some people think. Once something happens, it isn't set it stone. It can change.
You can make yourself believe anything if you lie to yourself enough.
Dawn Kurtagich
#72. When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it
Sinead O'Connor
#74. It's not so easy for people to end their own lives. It's not like in the movies. There, they do it like nothing, no pain, and it's all over, they're dead. The reality is not like that. You lie in bed for ten years with the piss oozing out of you.
Haruki Murakami
#75. Remember I'm an Empath before you lie to me. - Lily Hunt
Jennifer DeLucy
#76. The way you teach a child to eat well is through example, enthusiasm, and patient exposure to good food. And when that fails, you lie.
Bee Wilson
#77. Anorexics are the best liars in the world. You do anything to keep control. You place people into separate categories, those you trust, those you don't, those you can confide in and those whom you lie to. But of course the reality is that underneath it all, you are lying to yourself all the time.
Peter Barham
#78. Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.
Shekhar Kapur
#79. If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#80. Our Land is alive, Esperanza ... This whole valley breathes and lives ... He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#81. If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.
Mary Karr
#82. When you 'lie' to me, you don't 'lie down' or lay.
Even after the game you still want to play.
Munia Khan
#83. 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
#84. is critical for that relationship to be consensual. You must give your partner the opportunity to make an informed decision to be in a relationship with you. If you lie or withhold critical information, you remove your partner's ability to consent to be in the relationship.
Franklin Veaux
#85. The Arum are nothing more than what a human would call a parasite. They are not worth the filthy floor you lie upon.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#86. Every bit of pain and joy you have ever known lifts you up, and every moment you have lived comes together, and that is who you are, as you lie dying
Christy Ann Conlin
#88. You always blush when you lie."
"I do not." I felt the flush spread down my neck.
"If you keep lying, I think I will have to leave," he threatened halfheartedly. "I don't feel like my virtue is safe."
"You're virtue?" I huffed. "Whatever."
"I know how you get." His eyes closed.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#89. You okay, Sam?"
"Ha-ha, why wouldn't I be? Everything is peachy! I'm okay. I'm better than okay."
"Okay. I only ask because you haven't stopped staring at me for the last four hours."
"You lie with all your lies!
T.J. Klune
#90. When you lose your temper, you lose a friend. When you lie, you lose yourself.
Robyn Carr
#91. I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you lie to yourself just to keep going.
Glen Cook
#92. Tell me, Serena. Do you want me?" he asked softly. "Do you ache for me? Do you want my possession? Do you lie awake at night wanting a man strong enough to harness your sexuality, stroke it until the fire rages and then unleash it, set you free?
Maya Banks
#93. It wasn't easy, but like I've always said, if you can't lie to yourself, who can you lie to? The food
Seanan McGuire
#94. Perhaps my gift to you will be as simple as a single word, whispered into your ear by one of your servants as you lie on your deathbed, a word that solves a final mystery and makes it easy for you to slip quietly into the dark.
Dexter Palmer
#95. You lie long enough and you start to get used to it.
Pittacus Lore
#96. If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.
Amit Kalantri
#97. Honey, that man would do anything to keep you. Lie, steal, cheat, kill, clean up after himself, and do laundry.
Alisa Sheckley
#98. This is so fucking Human of you. Lie back and let the galaxy do whatever it wants, because you're too guilty about how badly you fucked up your own species to ever take initiative.
Becky Chambers
#99. If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a predator and has you for dinner. Many creatures do not sleep or sleep while standing so they can escape from dangerous situations.
Bernie Siegel
#100. Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching something hot, something that warps you in drastic and probably irreversible ways you won't get to take stock of until its too late
Rob Sheffield
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