Lie Quotes - page 2

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. (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. View quote
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. (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. View quote
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
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. (Bob Dylan)
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. View quote
Denis Diderot
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. View quote
William Wordsworth