Lie Quotes

"Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds"

"You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie"

"Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera"

Sela Ward, Actress

"There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do"

John Cusack, Actor

"But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines"

Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet

"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young"

A. E. Housman, Poet

"Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us"

Boyd Rice, Artist

"The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart"

John Grierson, Director

"It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie"

Damon Albarn, Musician

"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul"

Elia Kazan, Director

"If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct"

Saul Williams, Musician

"I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth"

Albert Finney, Actor

"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either"

Evan Esar, Writer

"I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own"

River Phoenix, Actor

"Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else"

Josh Hartnett, Actor

"I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth"

River Phoenix, Actor

"I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise"

Karl Shapiro, Poet

"You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over"

John Perkins, Economist

"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

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