Lie Quotes
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The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.
Charles Dickens
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Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
Anthony Marais
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People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.
Johnny Depp
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But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear... You are in the city of lies.
Arlene J. Chai
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What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?
Martin Luther
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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...She's not buying the lie, but there's nothing else on the shelves.
Barry Lyga
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Following World War II, the Jews... The Zionists tried to present themselves as oppressed, and to have opportunities in the world. They invented a false claim. They said that Hitler, the Germans, and the Austrians burned six million Jews in crematoria - six million Jews. They tried very hard to convince the world that this issue, this lie, was true, and they succeeded.
Ali Meshkini
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“I lie and am lied to, but the result of my lie is mental leaps, memory, knowledge.”
Walter Abish
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It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.
Emilie Loring
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Loneliness is just a permanent fact of life. And if you buy into the illusion that you can somehow escape it, you’re in for a world of hurt.
Want to know the biggest lie ever written? ’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
What an unmitigated pile of shit.
Bart Yates
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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
Rudyard Kipling
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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
Blaise Pascal
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Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;
Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,
While the stars burn, the moons increase,
And the great ages onward roll.
Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet.
Nothing comes to thee new or strange.
Sleep full of rest from head to feet;
Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
Victor Hugo
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
Henry Ward Beecher
