Lie Quotes - page 2

He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. (Mark Twain)
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else. View quote
Josh Hartnett
Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. View quote
Zhu Rongji
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. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
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. View quote
Graham Greene
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Sanity is a cozy lie. View quote
Susan Sontag
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. View quote
Susan Sontag
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie. View quote
Georg Büchner
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes for he must invent twenty more to maintain that one. (Alexander Pope)
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. View quote
Emil Cioran
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. View quote
Tim Allen
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. View quote
George Herbert
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. View quote
George Herbert
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. (Hilaire Belloc)
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. View quote
Fred W. Friendly
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Here dead we lie 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. View quote
A. E. Housman
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