Lie Quotes - page 6

A lie cannot live. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity. View quote
Halldór Laxness
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. View quote
Arthur Miller
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. View quote
Immanuel Kant
For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. View quote
Isaac Newton
State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people'. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. View quote
Albert Einstein
If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie. View quote
Richard Nixon
I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie. View quote
Mark Haddon
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. (Peter Straub)
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie. View quote
Paul Scott
I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack. View quote
Simon Pegg
Nevertheless, I still wonder. Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket-not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do. View quote
Betty White
A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain. View quote
Bill Cosby
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity. View quote
Alafair Burke
I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us. View quote
Eve Ensler
Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon. View quote
Alice Hoffman
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. View quote
Christopher Lasch
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. (Christopher Lasch)
It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education. View quote
Alphonso Jackson
When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write. View quote
Chantal Kreviazuk
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars. View quote
David Antin