Lie Quotes

The lie is a condition of life.

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.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

Politicians often lie.

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.

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

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.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

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.

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.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

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.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.

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.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

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.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.