Lie Quotes
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I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.
Charlie Peacock
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When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth.
Jordan Peterson
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Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.
Thomas Carlyle
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Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.
Gaspar Noe
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If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.
Gautama Buddha
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A lie is an excuse guarded.
Jonathan Swift
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A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.
Mike Cernovich
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To own beauty is the first lie of it.
Chris Campanioni
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Dropt tears have hastened your decay, And brought you one step nigher death; And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved, The music of Love's golden breath, And seen the light in eyes that loved. You think you hold the core and kernel, Of all the world beneath your crust, Old dial? But when you lie in dust, This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved. Love is eternal.
Eleanor Farjeon
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope." Sure you don't, I thought.
Sarah Dessen
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“I lie, I forge I blackmail.” Edward shrugged. “But cheating at cards? I'd never stoop so low.”
Good to know you have some principles.
Courtney Milan
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Individualism is a formidable lie.
Rene Girard
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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
Gautama Buddha
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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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Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Surveys show that surveys never lie.
Natalie Angier