Lie Quotes - page 84

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. (Marilyn Manson)
Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie. View quote
Nick Nolte
All writers all people have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. View quote
Willem Dafoe
[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger. View quote
E. M. Forster
I haven't made my point yet, which is that it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. View quote
E. M. Forster
If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple. View quote
Jennifer Lawrence
All the phenomena of the universe are presumably in some way continuous; and certain facts, plucked as it were from the very heart of nature, are likely to be of use in our gradual discovery of facts which lie deeper still. View quote
William Crookes
It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand. View quote
Philip Pullman
It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. View quote
Ian McEwan
She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime. (Ian McEwan)
Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope. View quote
Samuel P. Huntington
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth the perigee of his eccentric orbit. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about. View quote
Nick Cave
When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore. View quote
Matt Dillon
There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. ... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie. View quote
Taylor Momsen
What's Rome to me, what business have I there? I who can neither lie, nor falsely swear? Nor praise my patron's undeserving rhymes, Nor yet comply with him, nor with his times? View quote
Juvenal
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. View quote
Ben Jonson
People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies. View quote
Billy Joel
Many would say the reason why they steal is because they want to have an arsenal for future political exploits. It is a lie. It is greed. In any case, even if you want to do that, you have no right to do it. (Yemi Osinbajo)
All men lie to you. When they tell you that they love you, it's a lie... All men hate you, ladies, they hate you. Because you prevent men from thriving... This is why all the crimes committed in the world are women's fault. View quote
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Socialism and rationalism are to this day the touchstones of humanity, the rocks which lie in the course of revolution and science. Groups of swimmers, driven by reflection or the waves of circumstance against these rocks, break up at once into two camps, which, under different disguises, remain the same throughout all history, and may be distinguished either in a great political party or in a group of a dozen young men. One represents logic; the other, history: one stands for dialectics; the other for evolution. Truth is the main object of the former, and feasibility of the latter. View quote
Alexander Herzen
When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The gods that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. View quote
Richard Lovelace
I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that? View quote
Billy Bob Thornton