Lie Quotes

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

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.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

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.

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.

The lie is a condition of life.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

Politicians often lie.

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

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.

I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.