We have collected the best Lie Quotes by famous authors including Bob Wells, Lou Holtz, Zaha Hadid, Baltasar Gracian, James Callaghan and many others, we hope that among them you will find the right thought.
Actions lie louder than words.
Bob Wells
Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
Lou Holtz
I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.
Zaha Hadid
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
James Callaghan
I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don’t know, say, ‘I don’t know’.
Gore Verbinski
My fans know me and love me the way I am. I don’t want to lie to my fans.
Mithun Chakraborty
Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
Tim Allen
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn’t lie, which words easily can do.
Twyla Tharp
Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don’t steal. Don’t lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.
Jimmy Cliff
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer
Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t.
Lil B
As a kid I’d lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It’s my fatalistic streak, which I’ve inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
Ellie Goulding
Asceticism doesn’t lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn’t lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.
Guru Nanak
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
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
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama
The only way to cover up a lie? Keep lying.
Tomi Lahren
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
Harold Evans
A lot of people these days are very much too wrapped up in cotton wool: people aren’t pushed to their limits, and that’s why we should find out where our limits lie.
Ant Middleton
Once in a while, when I was younger, I’d lie, then tell the truth, and I’d feel better.
Tyler Hamilton
But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
Roberto Bolano
For the most part, when you play a full shot from the primary rough at your course, you’re gauging how close to a standard shot you can hit based on your lie in the grass.
Ernie Els
I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.
Chely Wright
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob Dylan
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
Salman Rushdie
I’ve been living a lie all my life.
Michael Reagan
Forget about someone’s resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn’t lie.
Nick Denton
Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.
Kirstie Alley
Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.
Paula Abdul
I don’t know exactly what are you supposed to do when you retire. Lie on the couch and do nothing? I didn’t want to do that.
Marv Levy
When we shrug and say we don’t care, it’s usually a lie. Every girl cares. We’ve just been taught not to expose ourselves by showing it. What the world needs now is girls and women who aren’t afraid to care – who are done saying, ‘Whatever.’
Glennon Doyle Melton
I am not going to lie: I know that there are clubs that want to sign me and can match Real Madrid’s demands. But that’s up to my representatives and the club. I will stay if the club wants me to stay.
Angel Di Maria
It’s okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.
Brian Helgeland
It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the ‘bad girl’ or the ‘good girl’ or the ‘bad mother’ or ‘the good mother,’ ‘the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children’ or ‘the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,’ all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.
Annette Bening
British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn’t want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie.
Steven Berkoff
Politicians often lie.
Paul Weyrich
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
I lie, I cheat, and I steal.
Eddie Guerrero
Aside from my work, my interests lie in the arts and in world affairs.
Torsten Wiesel
I’ve never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I’m 35, which I’m not, and have them say, ‘Oh that’s nice,’ when I could tell them I’m 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, ‘Whoa!’. I’m not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.
Sharon Stone
I’d be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to the conquered is based on a lie.
Peter Shaffer
Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.
Jordan Peterson
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
Ambrose Bierce
The trouble when you’re doing something illegal is that you know what you’re doing. You’re lying to your parents, you’re lying to your kids. The only person you can’t lie to is yourself.
Tommy Chong
The answers to today’s most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.
Gurjeet Singh
I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn’t. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.
Shah Rukh Khan
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
H. Rap Brown
WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.
Jesse Ventura
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Plato
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
Belle Boyd
When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can’t lie like that anymore.
Matt Dillon
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
Joel Edgerton
Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.
Bill Dedman
There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all – it’ll be ten o’clock and they’ll tell you it’s nine. You’re looking at the clock and you can’t even fathom why they’re lying. They just lie because that’s what they do.
John Cusack
You might hold an ethical position that it’s wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons – to reduce casualties, perhaps – and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a ‘good’ outcome.
Peter Singer
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Diane Ackerman
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
Primo Levi
I think all politicians lie.
Nancy Grace
If we’re gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.
Saul Williams
I don’t want to lie to my subscribers, so I’m really honest about my reviews and stuff.
Bethany Mota
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don’t lie. I tell the truth.
Christian Kane
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Hypatia
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz
For someone who is rarely on time, my body clock always knows when it’s too early to go to bed and I just lie there in the dark like I’m hiding.
Sarah Millican
I touched Roger’s bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I’m damn proud of that.
Mark McGwire
Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan Sontag
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I need to tell the world what I’m about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn’t want it to be.
Ricky Martin
I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.
John Lydon
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
Pierre Corneille
I can’t lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help.
Kelly Osbourne
Mother’s Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.
Anne Lamott
If you never lie to yourself, you’ll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.
Afrojack
I think people lie on the Internet. I would prefer to meet someone in person, and I need to have chemistry when we meet and spend a little time, and have a couple of dates.
Vivica A. Fox
And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Alexander Pope
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I’m not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
Jackson Browne
Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride… ish.
Tom Mison
Manipulating people is what’s so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone’s eyes and lie – and it’s perfectly acceptable.
Cheryl Hines
Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
Anne Frank
I don’t think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we’re someone else. I don’t tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
Albert Finney
Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they’re getting older, et cetera.
Sela Ward
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Horace Walpole
Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.
David Whyte
My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.
Frank Dobson
All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.
Paula Abdul
All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
Julian Barnes
I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.
Jimmy Carter
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
George Crabbe
I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.
Leverett Saltonstall
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
When I was a youth, to be called ‘African’ was a diss. At school, the African kids used to lie and say they were Jamaican. So when I first came in the game, and I’m saying lyrics like, ‘I make Nigerians proud of their tribal scars/ My bars make you push up your chest like bras,’ that was a big deal for me.
Skepta
I’ve seen inside fans’ houses, and they would have pictures of Jesus on the wall, and next to it would be a picture of The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express. That’s no lie.
Jim Cornette
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Roland Barthes
Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.
Teller
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I always find the worst lies are told in relationships – I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone’s feelings from being hurt.
Kirsten Prout
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Elias Canetti
Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.
Alan Sugar
The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness.
Ma Yansong
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Finley Peter Dunne
Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.
Michael Moore
Never lie, never cheat, never steal.
John Wooden
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
Theodor W. Adorno
There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists – and the rest of us – must stop giving equal time to things that don’t have an opposing side.
Daniel Levitin
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
I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
Carla Bruni
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift
We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.
Brent Scowcroft
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists’ chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
Garrett Hardin
There’s a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.
Carolina Herrera
I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, ‘Please don’t write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it’s bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.’
Barbara Boxer
You can legally lie about the real world to your heart’s content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain.
Richard Dawkins
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Marjorie Holmes
People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That’s a lie. I’ve got five of them. They only tell the truth if they’re in pain.
Bill Cosby
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.
Evan Esar
The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother’s advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
Adam DeVine
People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.
Robert Kiyosaki
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken
All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
Scott Turow
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Pope John Paul II
Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari’a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
Hussein of Jordan
Don’t hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it’s a lie.
Taylor Momsen
My favorite moment is when someone says, ‘I like ‘Unleashed.’ ‘Now You See Me’ is so much fun.’ That’s what I want to do: smart, fun and big movies. I cannot lie, I love working with those big paint brushes. I have a blast doing these movies.
Louis Leterrier
Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.
Noam Chomsky
If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.
Sun Myung Moon
Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won’t forgive you if you lie.
Mark Goulston
Oh, I love to lie. That’s one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn’t possibly be true.
Alice Cooper
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler
You think when you start getting jobs that it’ll get easier, but that’s the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it’d be a lot easier!
Kerry Condon
I can’t get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can’t lie.
David Beckham
I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you’d do the same thing.
Jason Isaacs
I never lie to my fans.
Becky G
Individualism is a formidable lie.
Rene Girard
It’s hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.
Rebecca Solnit
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. Mencken
Picasso said, ‘Art is a lie that tells the truth.’ What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
Nicolas Cage
Lie and tell the waiter that you’re deathly allergic to butter. This way you can enjoy the steak without all the excess fat.
David Kirsch
Broadcasting’s best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow’s technological world.
Gordon Smith
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor
With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn’t want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you’re lying to.
Cybill Shepherd
This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.
Jon Voight
You grow up in America and you’re told from day one, ‘This is the land of opportunity.’ That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, ‘That is absolutely a lie.’
Geoffrey Canada
I’d stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!
Mercedes McCambridge
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
I’m not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.
Miranda Richardson
The rule of law and the independence of the judiciary underpin our democracy and lie at the heart of our way of life. They are the very cornerstone of our freedoms.
David Lidington
I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won’t lie about that.
David Rakoff
The great spirals… apparently lie outside our stellar system.
Edwin Powell Hubble
In ‘Casino,’ there was this scene where Bob De Niro tape-records Sharon Stone’s phone call. Then he asks her about where she’s going, and he catches her in a lie. It was a great scene, especially for Bob’s work, but we found that, in light of the whole film, it wasn’t needed.
Thelma Schoonmaker
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn’t writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Ken Kesey
If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn’t forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it’s a lie.
Tony Kushner
Too much of British business and industry feels similarly secure in the warm embrace of the European single market and is failing to recognise that today’s great export opportunities lie in the developing world, particularly in Asia.
Nigel Lawson
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
Ken Follett
As a child I could lie in bed and do absolutely nothing for hours but once I decided to do something, big or small, I could not stop until it had been completed.
Freddie Ljungberg
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
Maj Sjowall
New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world’s greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
Federico Garcia Lorca
And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
Patricia Hewitt
I am opposed to autobiographies, mainly because most autobiographies lie.
Kamal Haasan
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.
George Deukmejian
Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they’re over-the-hill at age 50, I don’t understand it.
Herschel Walker
I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.
River Phoenix
I’m a bit of a caveman – I don’t go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.
Dave Matthews
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude Stein
I’m not gonna lie: I was not a big ‘Star Wars’ geek.
Anthony Hemingway
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.
Woody Allen
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain
A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you’re saying is a cover-up for how you really feel – embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.
Mika Brzezinski
When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon’s own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it’s all too clear the horror of what went on.
Bob Woodward
Lie to Me’ is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they’re not going to get from any other show.
Monica Raymund
I can’t even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.
Lydia Lunch
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
Martin Amis
When I was younger – I don’t do this too much now – but sometimes if I couldn’t sleep, I would lie in bed and imagine all the characters I’ve played at a dinner table together.
Jefferson Mays
I don’t want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don’t want to be a part of that.
David Arquette
Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
Adam McKay
I don’t like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.
Enrique Iglesias
I lie around and play guitar, that’s something I do for sure. In fact that’s all I do, I think.
Evan Dando
You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.
Don Miguel Ruiz
The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.
Steven Weber
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Christopher Lasch
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Robert Walpole
I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
Alan Cumming
You can’t lie down in the ashes of another person’s life.
Mattie Stepanek
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
George Herbert
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
Peter Straub
Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.
Marcel Marceau
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
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
The truth doesn’t lie. It’s up in your face. It’s in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.
Monica Johnson
You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.
Ernie Els
I lie to my children every day. Just little things to get them out the door when the school run is happening. White lies.
Rochelle Humes
If you said to me, ‘Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,’ I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.
Kevin McCloud
You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You’re online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It’s a job that you never push aside.
James Daly
I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.
Courtney Love
We have to ask ourselves, ‘What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes artificial flavoring and sugar for apple juice? What kind of businesses have we created when we even lie to infants?’
Paul Hawken
Weaklings must lie.
Jean Paul
I’m just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that’s a total lie. I always think about what’s in front of me.
Julianne Hough
What’s it like to figure out you’re gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Rudolf Otto
When I’m singing ‘Deanna,’ for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
Nick Cave
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Jeanette Winterson
Lying can never save us from another lie.
Vaclav Havel
President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.
Ben Shapiro
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin
Our message has been muddled, especially in 2016. Voters in Ohio heard from Trump, ‘I’m going to save your coal jobs.’ And while that was a lie, what it told them is, ‘I’m going to feel your pain.’ What they heard from the Democratic side was, ‘Vote for us because Donald Trump is crazy.’
Tom Perez
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Baltasar Gracian
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
When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
Douglas Coupland
Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie – the key is in the incidental detail.
Shaun Tan
To Live signifies to believe and hope – to lie and to lie to oneself.
Emil Cioran
I don’t mind what people say about me as long as it’s an opinion or the truth. If someone says, ‘He’s the worst comedian in the world,’ that’s fine. If someone says, ‘His face makes me want to punch the TV,’ that’s fine. But if they say, ‘Oh, and I know for a fact he hunts squirrels,’ I go: no, no, no… that’s a lie.
Ricky Gervais
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
The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions, and as long as Hamas is dedicated to those actions, they can expect a forceful Israeli reaction.
James Howard Kunstler
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous Huxley
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
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: ‘I want to be the richest man in the world.’ I’ve come a long way from there.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
It doesn’t benefit me to lie to people. They’re eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That’s the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.
Rush Limbaugh
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
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Terry McAuliffe
Fans don’t lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don’t.
Nicola Formichetti
Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
Marilyn Monroe wasn’t even her real name, Charles Manson isn’t his real name, and now, I’m taking that to be my real name. But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
Marilyn Manson
What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.
Lady Gaga
We need to create a sense of shame about racism, and about leaders who deliberately mislead and lie.
Gavin Esler
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Paracelsus
I don’t know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they’re capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn’t scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there’s no telling what might have ensued.
Charles Krauthammer
By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel Kant
If it was about lying under oath – we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives – but, in fact, he did not lie.
Paul Begala
I’ll tell you something that’s completely true – you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you’ve got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it’s going to give you poison inside the body.
Jean Reno
I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.
Kevin Rudd
I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I’ve had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.
Sarah McLachlan
Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There’s nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?
Christine O’Donnell
I don’t know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
Max Eastman
The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.
Joseph Brodsky
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
Said Nursi
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain
Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn’t tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn’t tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn’t tell the difference.
Jay Leno
A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it’s the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.
Gael Garcia Bernal
If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.
Nigel Barker
The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum – but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.
Chris Grayling
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
Acid wasn’t getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.
Tommy Rettig
I should learn the language of a politician – give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
Farooq Abdullah
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
Every edit is a lie.
Jean-Luc Godard
I’m a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don’t lie.
Jerry Weintraub
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You can’t just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can’t incite people to crime. There’s all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.
Jordan Peterson
Art is a deception that creates real emotions – a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
Marco Tempest
Right now, it’s really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn’t deliberately lie to them just to save my image.
Brandy Norwood
I don’t think lying has any ultimate justification. I don’t think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That’s one of the challenges in a way.
Andy Garcia
I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I’ll say to myself: ‘I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn’t be there.’
Charlize Theron
I’m not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it’s worth noting that no one can lie to us as effectively as we can lie to ourselves. We know exactly what to say! And I do think that women, even extremely smart women, can be very, very vulnerable to men.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.
Boyd Rice
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 S Truman
It’s a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It’s not the truth I’m here to say. You know, don’t judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don’t care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
Michael Jackson
And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted – steal, you know, lie, whatever.
Milos Forman
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of ‘Les Miserables,’ in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not – and was not interested in – telling a lie.
Tom Wolfe
I won’t lie – when you’re first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as a girl.
Jessie J
We can’t control it, and we’ve basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.
Nick Lachey
Plastic straws might be everything terrible about American consumerism, individually wrapped. But paper straws put the lie to the belief that we can consume our way out of the problems created by consumerism.
Annie Lowrey
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
I’ve never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What’s wrong with that?
Billy Bob Thornton
I’m actually incapable of lying. I’m like a parody of a person who can’t lie.
Busy Philipps
I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.
Daniel Tammet
Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
Eric Clapton
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Thomas Wolfe
I’m the worst liar – I can’t lie for my life. And I don’t lie at all, because I’m the worst liar – but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.
Julia Garner
Women lie, men lie, numbers don’t.
Patrick Beverley
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Remy de Gourmont
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark Twain
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
Mark Twain
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners’ minds work – where they’re strong, where they’re weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it’s harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.
Clive Thompson
I mean, Ed Snowden was basically saying the same things that Bill Binney and Thomas Drake and other U.S. whistleblowers had said before him. But he came out more publicly, and maybe revealed more. He showed that when the U.S. government said, ‘We are not surveilling U.S. citizens,’ that was a lie.
Katharine Gun
I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn’t make you stop.
Jodie Sweetin
Some days, I’d feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office – at least he doesn’t lie about the weather.
Molly Ivins
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
A. E. Housman
It’s not a lie that I’m a stronger guy than Pau. There’s nothing wrong with that.
Marc Gasol
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Karl Kraus
It sounds so cheesy, but there’s something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it’s really hard to lie.
Kristen Wiig
I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn’t supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people.
Cybill Shepherd
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Hilaire Belloc
I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.
Joe Scarborough
I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
Natalie Imbruglia
Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan Sontag
Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
Charles Bukowski
I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.
Lyn Nofziger
You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
Tori Amos
Politicians, it’s in their job description to just lie, every day.
Rob Delaney
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
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Remy de Gourmont
It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview – and it can be polite – is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can’t be exactly sure what will be asked.
Greta Van Susteren
Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
Josh Hartnett
It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.
Paul Davies
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Publilius Syrus
Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
Yiannis Stournaras
Asceticism doesn’t lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn’t lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.
Guru Nanak
Everybody say I give them Pac vibes. I ain’t gonna lie: I ain’t really grow up on Pac, but I kinda see it – just off everything I do, though.
Kodak Black
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
Barbara Kruger
I love the ocean, but I’m just not one to lie on the beach.
Naomi Judd
When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Jean Harlow
As a novelist, I’m incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t lie awake at four o’clock in the morning, worrying.
David Nicholls
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
Louis Kronenberger
Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn’t trade. Women who lie about their age – ‘why?’
Demi Moore
When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.
James Mercer
I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I’ll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn’t make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It’s so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.
Jim Parrack
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer’s adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
James Agee
I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.
James Blunt
The biggest lie about getting older is that excitement and growth end with youth.
MO
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we’d lie in the same bed, and I’d read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
Sherman Alexie
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
It’s a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven’t died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.
Penelope Cruz
For years, media moguls and campaigns bankrolled by the rich have fed the lie that migrants are the cause of injustices propagated by the powerful: the failure to build housing, the strain on public services by cuts, the lack of secure jobs, the decline in real wages.
Owen Jones
Everybody walks around talking about, ‘Sam Allardyce’s style is not good enough, he doesn’t play the right way’ and so on and so forth and it is a massive problem for me. People believe it. You believe the false lies, the false implications. Football does that – it believes that lie sometimes.
Sam Allardyce
The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.
Steve King
Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.
Haruki Murakami
I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It’s that this lie that they’re being told by society that parenting is one thing – and when parenting is something completely different – that’s what makes them unhappy.
Jessica Valenti
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
Grace Slick
The roots of racism lie deep in man’s nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
Sargent Shriver
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company.
Steve Wozniak
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
Alice James
I think 20th century media were about tricking people – and the beauty of the Internet is you can’t lie anymore.
Tucker Max
I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love – who I will tell you I can love with all my heart – and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That’s a lie.
Gene Simmons
There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can’t forget, you embroider… The further you tell, the further you travel from truth, which means, of course, that literature is a lie.
W. G. Sebald
Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.
David Suzuki
My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That’s hilarious.
Kreayshawn
If you’re going to say to all the people that you’re working with, ‘We want you to treat the customers honestly; don’t lie and don’t cheat,’ it is somewhat hypocritical if you’re not following the same rules.
James Sinegal
If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you’ll end up with some truth – not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That’s what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we’re having.
Denis Johnson
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene
People lie when they get upset.
Neal Adams
So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.
Maria Ressa
As for courage and will – we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton
I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you’re going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you’re probably lying a lot to them.
David Chase
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
George Herbert
The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
L. Neil Smith
I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.
Lynn Fontanne
I’m certainly not 10 pounds away from being an ingenue! Of course I would love to lose 10 pounds. I would never lie and say I don’t think about it, but I don’t think about it on a daily basis. I love my body. I don’t like wearing clothes that hide or cover it. I love wearing costumes that show it off.
Marissa Jaret Winokur
It’s rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don’t operate that way.
Jim Garrison
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.
Sebastian Horsley
In politics, yesterday’s lie is attacked only to flatter today’s.
Jean Rostand
These newspaper reporters… ever since Sullivan versus New York Times… have got a license to lie.
Edward Bennett Williams
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they’re better than anyone else on earth – and that’s a myth.
Ernest Gaines
There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can’t all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
No lie ever reaches old age.
Sophocles
Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
Teller
I like country music. I’m not going to lie. I’m from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it’s in my blood, and I love it.
Kim Dickens
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Unknown
When someone is looking down, they’re saying no. When they’re looking up, they’re looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they’re looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they’re feeling sorry – they don’t want to answer.
Duane Chapman
It’s up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can’t put our spirits in prison.
Cindy Sheehan
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
Desiderius Erasmus
The notion that the ‘leader’ has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise – if you’d be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut – that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.
Tom Stoppard
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de Montaigne
I don’t really lie about anything, I have to be honest. I like to live with the truth.
Lisa Vanderpump
Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.
Robert Herjavec
Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people’s enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I’m not going to lie to you, I’ve got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it’s like a pageant.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Don’t believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living – they lie.
Guy Finley
I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don’t know.
Pele
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
William James
Of course money is important – to say it is not in football would be a lie. But to find a good player with potential for a small amount of money and then to develop him in the group is a great pleasure for a manager and for a club.
Michael Laudrup
Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don’t like to lie to myself.
Anne Parillaud
You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while – it’s weird.
Michael Hutchence
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It’s disorderly. It’s dishonest and it’s not journalism.
Fred W. Friendly
I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
Marguerite Yourcenar
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you’re judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you’re from.
Ben Chaplin
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
Susanna Moodie
The idea that you’re not a writer until you’re published is a lie.
Andrew Vachss
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
Alvar Aalto
There’s only two people in your life you should lie to… the police and your girlfriend.
Jack Nicholson
Painting is a lie. It’s the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
Chuck Close
If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth’s surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.
Martin Rees
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’
Charles M. Schulz
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
Benjamin E. Mays
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
Donald Rumsfeld
I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.
Helen McCrory
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Unknown
I won’t lie – I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it’s zero percent.
Lindsey Vonn
I won’t lie, I’ve had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn’t sure about things and doubted myself.
Shania Twain
The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we’re in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it’s very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.
Scott Bakula
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
William Landay
Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.
James Meredith
When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, ‘Why do you work? If I were you, I’d just go and lie on a beach somewhere.’ And I’d answer, ‘Well, I wanted to make something of my life.’
Gloria Vanderbilt
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Havelock Ellis
As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to – perfect training to be a politician, you know?
Bob Beckel
I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn’t do anything – he just had to lie there.
Lara Flynn Boyle
Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I’m the opposite; I’d rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.
Joyce Giraud
I ain’t gon’ lie. I got love for Solange. She look sexy to me.
Rick Ross
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.
Lewis Hine
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
Isabel Allende
Let’s put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men’s liberation groups.
Robin Morgan
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
Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.
Wilbur Smith
We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.
Julia Gillard
You don’t have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
Gilbert Baker
All I know is what I have been given and what opportunities lie before me. Try to make the best of them, and I’m not going to give up until I make it to the top.
Kenny Omega
I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I’m not gonna lie.
Tionne Watkins
I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren’t where their strengths lie.
Will Oldham
I have had my share of choices and temptations, too; I would not lie about that. And I would also like to confess that had it not been for my mother, I would probably have never been able to make the right decisions during those formative years of my life.
Karan Patel
It’s always been a lie that it’s difficult to make films.
Lars von Trier
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
Willie Brown
The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
Daniel Baldwin
If my Dad doesn’t like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn’t even cuss.
Channing Tatum
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
Beth Henley
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka
Obviously as I’m getting older, I’m seeing changes in my body that I may not like… but I do love food, and I’m from the South. I’m not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.
Erin Andrews
I was living a life of a lie, I really was.
Tiger Woods
I’m not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
Gabby Douglas
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it’s done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can’t help but admire the liar.
Patrick deWitt
The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.
Thomas Kinkade
No one knows anything about economics. It’s the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals – what a mess.
Vicente del Bosque
I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?
Tony Gilroy
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Vladimir Lenin
And if that isn’t the truth, it would be a lie.
Colin Mochrie
I can’t lie… My face always gives me away. I’m also pathetically bad at poker!
Cat Deeley
In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there’s nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I’m not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.
Danica Patrick
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
Joe Biden
This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
Gottfried Leibniz
When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
Florence Welch
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Alfred Adler
You know, it’s just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.
Kurt Busch
I get a blood test every six months to narrow down what could be causing fatigue, exhaustion, dark thoughts, and obviously, eventually, how to be in my top shape. Blood doesn’t lie. From vitamins that I’m lacking to natural foods, it’s an educated guide to connect my physical internal and external look.
Eiza Gonzalez
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
Edward de Bono
Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.
Steven Biko
Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to compete. Gone are the days when simply wearing a brand on your firesuit was enough to justify the marketing expense of an Indy Car. Racing an Indy Car is only about a quarter of my life as a racing driver.
Charlie Kimball
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.
Dewitt Bodeen
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Daniel J. Boorstin
If you read ‘Lord of the Rings’ and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you’re missing the whole point of the story. If children don’t have to be concerned about strangers because there’s no such thing as a Big Bad Wolf dressed like Granny, you’re missing the point.
Doug TenNapel
I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.
Kevin Pietersen
Special counsel Robert Mueller, investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, provided ample evidence that the president should be investigated for obstruction of justice in his attempt to quell the Russia investigation by firing Comey and urging aides to lie.
Heather Cox Richardson
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
As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of – the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.
Raymond Floyd
Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don’t lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.
J. D. Hayworth
I’m not going to lie: not playing football will be very difficult for me.
Raul
I’m not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.
Bill Burr
From a good lie in the middle of a fairway bunker, I’ll make the same swing as I do from an average fairway lie. I’ll dig my feet in slightly and keep my lower body stable so I won’t slip, but I don’t change my club selection or setup. It’s only when the ball is sitting down in the sand that I’ll make some modifications.
Ernie Els
Don’t see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The ‘ghost’ is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I’m reading a lie.
Gary Kemp
I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I’m afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I’m very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can’t really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can’t.
Amy Adams
You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
Moses
Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.
Jenny McCarthy
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
It’s a humorous statement that doesn’t mean anything. You can’t lie to God – it’s ridiculous.
Jimmy Swaggart
Washington couldn’t tell a lie, Nixon couldn’t tell the truth, and Reagan couldn’t tell the difference.
Mort Sahl
We Indians are Latin America’s moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.
Evo Morales
If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that’s what I did.
Steve Guttenberg
I hate not working. It’s that lack of purpose. It becomes very easy to lie in until midday.
George Blagden
Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
Stevie Wonder
You have nothing if you’re texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push ‘reply all.’ I mean, since we’re lying, we might as well lie to everybody.
Steve Harvey
I don’t think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It’s actually a disadvantage because that’s not where all the interesting parts lie.
Tuppence Middleton
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
I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn’t done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us.
George Tenet
I just have an inability to lie.
Paloma Faith
There were many times that I took such a big hit that I was dazed; I’m not going to lie. I’d see black, but I’m still looking for the puck. Where’s the play going? I’m going to keep going. Same thing in figure skating. If I take a hard fall, I’m going to get up, and I’m going to do the next jump.
Max Aaron
It’s a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
Stephen Leacock
Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.
Cheech Marin
You don’t lie to your own doctor. You don’t lie to your own attorney, and you don’t lie to your employees.
Gordon Bethune
When I started, I knew I didn’t fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn’t come to me; I go out and look for it.
Whoopi Goldberg
There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.
Juan Pablo Galavis
Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
Alveda King
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
Thomas Huxley
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch
We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Tad Williams
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
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you’re living a lie, the scariest thing is to be alone with your thoughts.
Zoey Tur
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Simone Weil
Even in a healthy society, violence, lawlessness, and predation lie just below the surface.
William Barr
You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it’s out of your mouth, they know it’s a lie.
Elaine Stritch
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
Leonardo da Vinci
Most governments lie to each other. That’s the way business gets done.
Robert M. Gates
Look, if America – if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
Linda Tripp
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
Charles M. Schulz
People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.
Errol Morris
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
Georg Buchner
What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
Harry Frankfurt
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
In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps ‘lie’ is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.
Iyanla Vanzant
I love period pieces. It’s where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That’s what I hope to find myself in, in the future.
Kris Holden-Ried
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
Anthony Kennedy
I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.
Katharine Gun
If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.
Martin Parr
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
Philip Massinger
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Voltaire
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The president doesn’t order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn’t order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
I’m 0 for 3 with marriage – the scoreboard doesn’t lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
Charlie Sheen
Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.
Rob Mariano
First of all, the idea that natural gas is better than coal is a lie, especially when it comes to fracking for natural gas. It is a lie that was bought into by a lot of Democrats and a lot of environmentalists because I think they wanted to have a win against something; against coal.
Josh Fox
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn’t mean that they’re well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.
Nate Berkus
Japan has very long hospital stays. Ah, it’s almost a rest cure. People in Japan who are hospitalized might lie around the hospital for a week or two just to take a rest.
Marcia Angell
My entire life has been a lie.
Bobby Darin
Pakistan’s future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
Benazir Bhutto
Your woods, irons and wedges are built with specific lengths and lie angles, which demand that you stand to the ball a little differently for each one. The secret is to know which elements of your address position remain constant, and which ones you have to tweak to match the club in your hand.
Sergio Garcia
The stopwatch doesn’t lie. The tape measure doesn’t lie.
Daley Thompson
The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.
Laurieann Gibson
The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart – and here’s why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary – to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.
Joyce Brothers
I don’t think there’s much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there’s some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don’t bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
Peter Singer
Entertainer of the Year, to me, there’s never been any question that that’s one on my bucket list that I want. I’m not going to sit here and lie to you. If there’s one that I ever could get – I would trade all the rest of them in for that one.
Jason Aldean
100 million iphones don’t lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i’s. We have an i everything and its all so amazing.
Billy Bush
I’m not going to lie: it’s tough. There were a couple of games where you’re down, and you’re in a really dark place, and you don’t know if you’re ever going to come out of it. You realize, ‘Hey, I’m having a bad day,’ but you realize there are people out there having worse days.
Manny Machado
I’m not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.
Tom Felton
If a person lies to you about what’s in their bank account, they’ll lie to you about other things as well.
Christie Brinkley
Abortion is wrong. I think everyone knows that, which is why abortion activists are so angry all the time. It’s a bit like when you catch someone out in a lie, and they get really mad at you really quickly, and you can’t work out why until later. It’s guilt.
Milo Yiannopoulos
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
Youssou N’Dour
Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
Emmeline Pankhurst
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
I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I’ll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can’t nap, I’ll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.
China Machado
I haven’t seen ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ – I’m not gonna lie.
Tom Holland
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible – to live in the truth, as I say – to get out of the lie.
Gilbert Baker
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg
Sometimes the point isn’t to make people believe a lie – it’s to make people fear the liar.
Anne Applebaum
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Jack Nicholson
I’m already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I’m not gonna lie to you; I didn’t really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you’re crazy.
Lil Uzi Vert
With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.
Jim Doyle
The dream doesn’t lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
Alphonso Jackson
I never lie because I don’t fear anyone. You only lie when you’re afraid.
John Gotti
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.
Teller
The social media platforms have taken over the distribution of news globally. They treat a lie the same way you would treat a fact.
Maria Ressa
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a ‘conflict of interest.’ But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.
Jerry Saltz
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
Harrison Ford
Ball don’t lie!
Rasheed Wallace
Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Oliver Herford
Playing a bad guy would be fun, I’m not going to lie. I’d definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it’s so out of my nature.
Michael B. Jordan
The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.
Mary Wilson Little
I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that’s such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.
David Rakoff
When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.
Robert M. Hutchins
Everything is so chaotic. My nervous system can’t handle it. I need my peace, so, every once in a while, while the kids are at school, I lie in bed, close the curtains, watch television and eat food.
Leslie Mann
I can’t believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can’t believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.
Dave Matthews
I – honestly, I don’t know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That’s just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.
Michael Moore
Children – if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children – children lie all the time.
Donna Tartt
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’
Charles M. Schulz
If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
Mandy Patinkin
My dad once told me, he was like, ‘The only time you should lie is when someone’s holding a gun to your head and says ‘Okay, lie or I’m going to shoot you.’ And that really stuck with me.
Jaden Smith
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
David Antin
We have nothing but gratitude for the opportunity we have had here, and any other response would be ridiculous, irresponsible and a lie. It is that simple. I owe China; China doesn’t owe me.
Steve Wynn
I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it’s not a lie.
Mark Wahlberg
A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There’s good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can’t really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.
Demian Bichir
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
Brian Eno
I can’t judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.
Charles Manson
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
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Christopher Hampton
My personal life is lived as ‘me,’ but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become ‘someone else.’ That’s my job.
Wallace Shawn
If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.
Joel McHale
All I can say is anybody who’s spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.
Lady Colin Campbell
But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.
Lynn Samuels
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
I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, ‘I’m just tired of the snarky right now. I just want to lie down and have somebody make me laugh for an hour. Entertain me, and then I’m going to sleep with a smile on my face.’ That’s my job; that’s what I do.
Jimmy Fallon
I lie to myself every day when I tell myself, ‘I can skip yoga.’
Melissa Fumero
I refuse to lie to children.
Maurice Sendak
Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single man, a bad man, usually, who so wrapped his identity with a particular configuration of facial hair that the two became inseparable.
Rich Cohen
Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
Betty White
In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can’t even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn’t have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
Ville Valo
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
William Feather
I’m not going to lie; I’m not a huge remix person.
Marina and the Diamonds
You have these catch-phrases that you associate with ‘The X-Files’: ‘Trust No One,’ ‘Deny Everything.’ ‘Believe the Lie’ was one of them.
Chris Carter
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
Marya Mannes
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet – when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
Elizabeth Bowen
Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.
Irvin Kershner
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
The advantage does lie with us because we’re at home and if we can’t motivate ourselves for this match then we can’t motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.
Frank Lampard
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
James Bovard
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
I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won’t lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn’t good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, ‘What could I do? I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t act or anything like that. OK, I can write.’
Harvey Pekar
I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
Errol Morris
My musical roots and inspiration lie not in rock n’ roll or metal music, but first and foremost in classical music, balalaika, and in underground house music.
Varg Vikernes
A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That’s consistent with who I am. I don’t pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.
Ryan Seacrest
There’s a difference between a rumor and a lie.
Mathew Knowles
I never quite understood these actors – though I envy them sometimes – who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
Sylvester Stallone
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
I. F. Stone
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin
I’ve told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It’s very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you’ve done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you’re honest.
Sophie Okonedo
I’m not going to lie and say I don’t really mind about winning in America. Of course I do.
Tommy Fleetwood
‘Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven’s the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
Joni Mitchell
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
Henry Wotton
I’m trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.
Novak Djokovic
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Thomas Mann
If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a ‘lie,’ and I’m fascinated with that.
Jen Kirkman
After doing films like ‘Krrish,’ ‘Bang Bang,’ and ‘Mohenjo Daro,’ ‘Kaabil’ is one film where you can’t lie at all. You can’t be a hero. You have to be real. You have to be yourself. So that was a challenge.
Hrithik Roshan
I was very unsure of myself when I was young and an ugly little beggar with protruding teeth, so I used to lie on them at night to try to straighten them.
Engelbert Humperdinck
An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
Mason Cooley
It is my position that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.
Michael Mullen
If I utter one lie, I’ll have to remember it the next time someone asks me about it. It’s far simpler to state the truth.
Sudeep
New Day rocks. I can’t lie.
Kenny Omega
Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.
Lee Greenwood
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
James Anthony Froude
My talents do not lie in DIY.
Morrissey
If you’re truly depicting human behavior in an honest way, it is a lot of miscommunication, non-communication, paranoia, passive aggressiveness. People don’t finish sentences. They don’t say what they mean. They lie to each other. They take credit for things that are actually other people’s ideas.
Terence Winter
Numbers don’t lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don’t lie.
Max Holloway
Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it’s doing, look at what it’s promoting, look at what it’s condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there’s some sort of Republican War on Women. We don’t do this to women! We don’t objectify women like this.
Rush Limbaugh
‘Live a Lie’ is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.
Dhani Harrison
It’s often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that’s a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
L. Neil Smith
I cannot lie on the beach or by a swimming pool. I think I’m too Nordic to like a lot of relentless sun.
Sandi Toksvig
I ain’t gonna lie: I love that cheese.
Rick Ross
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
You can be a namby-pamby leftie, a gun-toting neo-con, or a soft, indecisive moderate. I really don’t care. Just don’t lie to me.
Steven Crowder
Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.
Chris Rock
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl – rather shy, but I didn’t show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn’t have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
Maj Sjowall
We’re all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We’re just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.
Mehmet Oz
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.
Jose Rizal
The drawings in ‘Portal’ were actually me scribbling that stuff… I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten ‘The cake is a lie’ tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That… that’s odd.
Kim Swift
No one has a First Amendment right to lie to a federal agency in order to claim an improper tax status in order to avoid legal disclosure requirements on political spending and thereby receive undue tax benefits. That’s a criminal false statement and possibly a fraud.
Sheldon Whitehouse
Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It’s very easy to enjoy yourself.
Tove Jansson
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
Sometimes it’s just ‘Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.’ I’m not going to lie to you – I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.
Richard Simmons
I don’t care if every patriarch in the Church has made a mistake in a blessing, and told a lie, I believe with all my heart and soul that the gospel is true, and I will not allow my faith to be upset.
Heber J. Grant
My favourite day is like when it’s raining, and I can just lie on the couch.
Lloyd Blankfein
If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, ‘You can go to any school you want to; we don’t see race.’ Biggest lie ever told.
Bennie Thompson
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
One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds – masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you’re going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.
Pamela Meyer
I was raised to believe in myself. I know I’m cool. I’m not trying to brag or say I’m the man or anything like that. I don’t lie or cheat, and I’m not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
Whitney Houston
You can’t live a lie. You have to follow your heart.
Paul Weller
Marriage is hard. I’m not gonna lie.
Aisha Tyler
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
Lois Lowry
I remember going out alone in a canoe. Somebody told me to lie in the bottom of the canoe and just drift. It was a small lake and I was perfectly safe. So I did that, and I drifted. It was quiet and peaceful. Suddenly, I heard a loon cry the first time I ever heard that marvelous sound.
Lorne Greene
The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.
Cesar Chavez
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God’s mercy and Christ’s merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband’s arms, and to lie down with Him.
Donald Cargill
If you screw up and do something, don’t lie about it; come clean.
Pete Rose
When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.
Diego Luna
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler
Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don’t be intimidated. Read your Bible. That’s really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God’s name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.
Margaret Keane
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
James Hall
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
Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family’s cottage in Maine. It’s on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.
Hope Davis
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying – you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there’s a calamity.
Alafair Burke
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
Adolf Loos
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
For me, the best way to unwind at the end of the day while I’m pregnant is to take a nice, long soak. I get in my bathtub, download a show onto my computer, prop it up on a chair, and just lie there watching and relaxing.
Jessie James Decker
My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women’s shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.
Steve Madden
The ‘Rule of Three’ is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation, it’s really hard to repeatedly lie or fake conviction.
Christopher Voss
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles Spurgeon
A lie never lives to be old.
Sophocles
We are human beings, you need to mentally switch off now and again to refresh your body and mind. But I never just lie on the couch in my downtime, I still keep my body in good shape.
Luke Campbell
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Gilbert Parker
Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.
Jillian Michaels
Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.
Ted Nugent
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Manoj Bhargava
Johnny ‘Fairplay’ Dalton manufactured a lie about his dear grandmother dying in order to win a challenge. This is one of the best villain moments of ‘Survivor’ ever! This lie was pre-planned, evil, and perfectly played out.
Jenna Morasca
Don’t misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.
Carl Paladino
I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.
Michael Bloomberg
And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can’t find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
Bruce Nauman
The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
Gottfried Leibniz
We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.
John le Carre
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Susan Sontag
I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.
Bennie Thompson
When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.
John Perkins
I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that’s a lie!
Julie Bowen
Because I used to play a lot of sport, I’ve always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I’d lie and say, ‘Yeah, I’m going to the gym.’ I literally never did anything.
Jamie Dornan
We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.
Bryan Clay
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
Orson Welles
