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

"A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself"

"I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie"

"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie"

"I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself"

Anne Parillaud, Actress

"I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there"

Lara Flynn Boyle, Actress

"There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie"

Elvis Costello, Musician

"He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech"

Gilbert Parker, Politician

"Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose"

Czeslaw Milosz, Poet

"It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison"

Cindy Sheehan, Activist

"A lie never lives to be old"

Sophocles, Author

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"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

"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

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

Epictetus, Philosopher

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

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"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

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

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"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

"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