Lie Quotes
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Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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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Photography is without mercy - though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.
Nick Harkaway
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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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Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?
Anthony Ryan
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It's a lie in the end, you only satisfy your friends.
Pete Yorn
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Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.
Adah Isaacs Menken
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A man may lie to his psychiatrist, his doctor, his wife, his employer, to God and to Mom, but his teeth tell all.
Stephen Hunter
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A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler
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If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.
Ben Weaver
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I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.
Homer
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Sometimes the truth, told right, was the best lie.
Elizabeth Bear
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I put my mother through a lot when I was a teenager. I used to lie a lot. Now, we talk all the time.
Esperanza Spalding
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That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.
Carrie Jones
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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
Henrik Ibsen
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Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.
Nick Dear
