Lie Quotes

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.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

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.

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.

A lie never lives to be old.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

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.

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.

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.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

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.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

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.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

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.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.