Lie Quotes
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As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.
Victoria Hanley
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
George Eliot
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What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
Martin Luther
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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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Study after study shows that people are much less likely to lie to a person they consider to be honest.
Pamela Meyer
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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Above all, do not lie to yourself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.
Adolf Hitler
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Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through,
Though I am damned for it we two will lie
And burn, here where the starlings fly
Charlotte Mew
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You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
Alan Rickman
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The pure soul is a pure lie.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
Charles Dickens
