Lie Quotes

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.

Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.

It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.