Lie Quotes
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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
George Bernard Shaw -
“I lie and am lied to, but the result of my lie is mental leaps, memory, knowledge.”
Walter Abish
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It's important that you don't lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.
Patrick Pichette -
Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.
Sarah Wayne Callies -
We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
Patrick Ness -
Having an exit strategy can be a social saver.... The key is keeping your little white lie plausible.
April Masini -
Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
Victor Hugo -
When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.
Rick Pitino
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...because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.
Colin Thompson -
Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies... and often dangerous ones. Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself. The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person's situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.
Bill Bonner -
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
Beth Kephart -
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 -
If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
Satchel Paige -
We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6
Erich Maria Remarque
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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 -
Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
Anthony Marais -
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
Victor Hugo -
And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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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 -
She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.
Ally Carter -
When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth.
Jordan Peterson