Lie Quotes: Uncovering the Truth Behind Falsehoods (Page 2)

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms"

Voltaire, Writer

"George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie"

Mark Twain, Author

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives"

Mark Twain, Author

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty"

Stephen King, Author

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie"

Stephen King, Author

"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep"

Woody Allen, Director

"If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Truth never was indebted to a lie"

Edward Young, Poet

"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"A lie cannot live"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic"

John F. Kennedy, President

"You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie"

Doug Coupland, Author

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around"

Ken Kesey, Author

"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different"

William James, Philosopher

"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest"

Norman Douglas, Writer

"Let sleeping dogs lie"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

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