Lie Quotes - page 4

Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. View quote
L. Neil Smith
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive. View quote
Gao Xingjian
The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on. View quote
Cordell Hull
We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another. View quote
John le Carré
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us and we must walk that road to the end. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. View quote
Roger Ebert
Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done. (Robert Gates)
Here lies my wife here let her lie Now she's at rest, and so am I. View quote
John Dryden
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. View quote
Beatrix Potter
The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things. View quote
Cecelia Ahern
The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead. View quote
Robert Browning
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work. View quote
Terry Gilliam
Know, man hath all which nature hath, but more, and in that more lie all his hopes of good. View quote
Matthew Arnold
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid. View quote
John Gotti
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. (Martin Amis)
Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them! View quote
John Gay
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference. View quote
Mort Sahl
It is not manly to lie even about Satan. View quote
James A. Garfield
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states. View quote
Václav Havel