Lie Quotes

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. (Winston Churchill)
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. View quote
H. L. Mencken
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. View quote
Karl Kraus
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. View quote
William James
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. View quote
Lucille Ball
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. View quote
Woody Allen
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. View quote
Oliver Herford
Repetition does not transform a lie into the truth. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Pain forces even the innocent to lie. View quote
Publilius Syrus
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. View quote
Plutarch
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. View quote
Tove Jansson
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. View quote
Theodor Adorno
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. View quote
Albert Finney
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie. View quote
H. G. Wells
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. View quote
Helen Rowland
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. View quote
Eric Hoffer
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