Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says? — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“Every lying thought bears in itself a proof of its falsehood. This proof is its deadly effect upon the heart;” — St. John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing… — Michael Hanlon Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Many people talk a lot about environmental preservation, but true greatness lies in putting these principles into practice and actually doing something… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad;… — Plato Copy Share Image
The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary… — Alexander Girard Copy Share Image
So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that got me into working with photos. The main thing is that I saw both what… — John Heartfield Copy Share Image
A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
“I know you're not thirsty. That's bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep.” — Adam Mansbach Copy Share Image
For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2) — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“It's difficult to hones with others when you continue lying to yourself.” — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving! — Peter Costello Copy Share Image
Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction. — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
