Lie Quotes: Uncovering the Truth Behind Falsehoods (Page 3)

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

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

"Let sleeping dogs lie"

"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

"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Sanity is a cozy lie"

Susan Sontag, Author

"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"My entire life has been a lie"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it"

Mary Astell, Writer

"My whole life has been a lie"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you"

Oliver Herford, Author

"Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true"

Elias Canetti, Author

"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white"

Patricia Sun, Author

"I am a lie who always speaks the truth"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

"Its not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell"

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist

"In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance"

Thomas Sydenham, Scientist

"There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

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