Lie Quotes - page 11

To lie, of course, is to engender insanity. (Anaïs Nin)
I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks. View quote
David Gemmell
An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board. View quote
André Maurois
They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by. View quote
Ani DiFranco
No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world. View quote
Dinah Craik
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Don't lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone's little home. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable. (Ernest Hemingway)
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. View quote
Amy Tan
I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God. View quote
Frances Farmer
You might want to lie down. I find that helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down... View quote
Brian Aldiss
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
You have no control over your cat! You can't say to your cat, "Cat, heel! Stay! Wait! Lie down! Roll over!" 'Cause the cat's just gonna be sitting there going, "Interesting words ... have you finished?" While you're shouting all this to your cat, your dog's next to you, going ... [mimes obeying all commands] "What the hell are you doing? I'm talking to the cat!" "Oh, I'm sorry!" View quote
Eddie Izzard
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love... There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man. View quote
Edith Sitwell
So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly. (Ann Coulter)
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot? View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) View quote
Dorothy Parker
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone. View quote
Anne Sexton
Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie. View quote
Cormac McCarthy