Lie Quotes

4989 Lie quotes by 2863 unique authors

Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of… — Edward Abbey
Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment… — Richard Avedon
Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put… — Orson Scott Card
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused. — Bobby Sands
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable — Finley Peter Dunne
I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of… — B.F. Skinner
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy… — William James
I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood. — Homer
The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries… — Sappho
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things. — Plutarch
I know that a creed is the shell of a lie. — Amy Lowell
Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. — Robinson Jeffers
In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to distract from the… — Mitt Romney
I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real… — Mike Huckabee
I appreciate both men and women. I love the female body and truly appreciate the female form. I really enjoy sketching women, especially their backs.… — Miranda Kerr
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in… — Emanuel Lasker
It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over… — Simone de Beauvoir
That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice. — Malcolm X
Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know… — Napoleon Hill
It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony. — Jim Rohn
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films. — Lars von Trier
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth. — Ingmar Bergman
Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart. — Fiona Apple
Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth. — Paul Watson

Who Wrote These Lie Quotes

2,863 authors contributed a total of 4,989 Lie Quotes, led by these top contributors: