Quotes on Lie

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Author: Diane Ackerman

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Author: Alfred Adler

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Author: Aeschylus

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

Author: James Agee

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

Author: Woody Allen

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.

Author: Kirstie Alley

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

Author: Tori Amos

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

Author: Roone Arledge

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

Author: John Bangs

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

Author: Pedro Barca

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Author: Roland Barthes

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

Author: Ludwig Beethoven

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Author: Hilaire Belloc

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Author: Hilaire Belloc

Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post.

Author: Lord Beresford

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

Author: Dewitt Bodeen

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Author: Edward Bono

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

Author: Hal Borland

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

Author: Lester Bowie

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

Author: Barbara Boxer

So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie.

Author: Andre Braugher

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

Author: Sandra Bullock

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Author: Edmund Burke

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Author: Samuel Butler

To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.

Author: Yancy Butler

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Author: Elias Canetti

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

Author: John Carre

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Author: Emile Cioran

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Author: Paulo Coelho

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

Author: Pierre Corneille

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

Author: Pierre Corneille

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Author: Elvis Costello

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

Author: Doug Coupland

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

Author: Abraham Cowley

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

Author: George Crabbe

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

Author: John Cusack

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

Author: Puff Daddy

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.

Author: Willem Dafoe

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

Author: James Daly

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

Author: Evan Dando

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Author: Norman Douglas

With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.

Author: Jim Doyle

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

Author: Finley Dunne

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

Author: Lawrence Durrell

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.

Author: Crystal Eastman

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

Author: Max Eastman

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Author: Roger Ebert

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

Author: Daniel Ellsberg

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

Author: Epictetus

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Author: Evan Esar

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

Author: Harold Evans

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

Author: Robert Flaherty

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

Author: Ken Follet

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

Author: Lynn Fontanne

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

Author: Cathy Freeman

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

Author: Fred Friendly

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

Author: James Froude

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

Author: Thomas Fuller

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

Author: David Geffen

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.

Author: Timothy Geithner

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.

Author: Natalie Goldberg

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

Author: John Gotti

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

Author: Remy Gourmont

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Author: Remy Gourmont

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Author: Baltasar Gracian

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Author: Baltasar Gracian

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

Author: Garrett Hardin

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

Author: Jean Harlow

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

Author: Josh Hartnett

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Author: Vaclav Havel

Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.

Author: J. Hayworth

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

Author: Beth Henley

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

Author: George Herbert

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

Author: Oliver Herford

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

Author: Robert Higgs

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

Author: Lewis Hine

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

Author: Hippocrates

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Author: Adolf Hitler

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Author: Adolf Hitler

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Author: Adolf Hitler

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Author: Eric Hoffer

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.

Author: Marjorie Holmes

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Author: Oliver Holmes

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

Author: Anthony Hopkins

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

Author: Edwin Hubble

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

Author: Michael Hutchence

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Author: Robert Hutchins

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

Author: Natalie Imbruglia

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

Author: William James

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

Author: Thomas Jane

A lot of people are tired around here, but I'm not sure they're ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.

Author: Jim Jones

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

Author: Walid Jumblatt

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Author: Immanuel Kant

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

Author: Elia Kazan

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Author: Ken Kesey

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

Author: Larry King

The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.

Author: Steve King

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

Author: William King

A lie cannot live.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

Author: Mike Krzyzewski

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

Author: Nick Lachey

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

Author: Tim LaHaye

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Author: Dalai Lama

I'm not going to lie to you fellas, I've been drinking.

Author: Artie Lange

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Author: Christopher Lasch

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.

Author: Hugh Laurie

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

Author: Stephen Leacock

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

Author: James Levine

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

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Author: Anne Lindbergh

I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii.

Author: Linda Lingle

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

Author: Federico Lorca

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

Author: Courtney Love

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Author: Marya Mannes

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

Author: Mickey Mantle

I could lie and tell you I'm a hardcore gamer - I'm not.

Author: Josie Maran

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Author: Dean Martin

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Author: Philip Massinger

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

Author: Dave Matthews

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

Author: Terry McAuliffe

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

Author: Mary McCarthy

I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

Author: Mark McGwire

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

Author: Olin Miller

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

Author: Joni Mitchell

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Author: Charles Montague

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Author: Michel Montaigne

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

Author: Michel Montaigne

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Author: Maria Montessori

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

Author: John Motley

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

Author: Augustus Napier

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.

Author: Nursultan Nazarbayev

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

Author: Conor Oberst

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?

Author: Christine O'Donnell

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

Author: Satchel Paige

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Author: Emmeline Pankhurst

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Author: Gilbert Parker

Weaklings must lie.

Author: Jean Paul

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Author: Pope Paul II

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

Author: Simon Pegg

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.

Author: River Phoenix

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Author: Plato

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Author: Titus Plautus

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

Author: Boyd Rice

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?

Author: Jef Richards

But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments.

Author: Kevin Richardson