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

"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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

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

Mason Cooley, Writer

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

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Norman Douglas, Writer

"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

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

Aeschylus, Playwright

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

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"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

"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

"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

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

Dalai Lama, Leader

"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

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

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"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

"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"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

"A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination"

Hal Borland, Author

"I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"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