Lie Quotes
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I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie.
William Faulkner -
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands.
Martin Luther
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Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
Walker Percy -
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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 -
Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
Ally Carter -
While we lie tumbling in the hay.
William Shakespeare -
He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.
Washington Allston -
Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I would say I am one of those people who just love to connect to people doing something I love. Can't lie, love a ballad, so expect big, powerful, emotive stuff from me!
Anzia Yezierska -
There are of course mornings when you wouldn't mind a lie in.
Andrew Flintoff -
Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
Pablo Picasso -
Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret!
Elizabeth Gaskell
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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 -
I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!
Homer -
Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia -
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.
Walt Disney -
Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.
Alex Linder -
One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
Paul Klee
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A good, solid, beefy lie is too heavy to stand on its own. It needs smaller, quicker, more complicated lies to hold it up.
Catherynne M. Valente -
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The heart does not lie.
Marcel Proust -
Above all, do not lie to yourself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky