Quotes About Lie

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

We all love each other, and the lie is the kiss we exchange.

The absurd lie has all the charm of the perverse with the even greater, ultimate charm of being innocent

But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

The only lie I ever told her was my undoing, and hers, and the stablemaster's. Such is the power of a lie given to one you love.

This isn't a game we're playing between ourselves, he continued. Don't pretend that it is. Isn't it? A challenge flared in her eyes, like fire inside the purest emerald. Don't lie to me, John. Don't pretend it's any more than it really is. It's a job. One we're both determined to complete, nothing more. Like hell.

And where, in my time, would my body lie?

At my first press conference I was asked whether we could trust the Soviet Union, and I said that the answer to that question could be found in the writings of Soviet leaders: It had always been their philosophy that it was moral to lie or cheat for the purpose of advancing Communism.

Forcing the carefully planned lie out with all the casualness he could muster, he said

A superstitious belief which embraces an error keeps the possibility open that the truth may come to arouse it; but when the truth is there, and the superstitious mode of apprehending it transforms it into a lie, no saving awakening is possible.

one man long as a life and thin as a lie

Not to know the difference between a metaphor and a lie is one definition of insanity.

It is a kind of dizzying comfort to contemplate the open abyss when, at the bottom of that abyss, lies nothingness.

Truth felt light and green, but a lie sunk to the floor, heavy as metal, a substance she always avoided for it made her feel as though she was trapped behind bars.

And in a way, you could say that my father's end was my beginning...Or more precisely, that the end of his lie coincided with the beginning of my truth

Sin has many tools, but a lie has a handle to fit them all.

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier.

No one was safe in Valbeck now. Perhaps no one ever truly was. Perhaps safety was a lie people told themselves so they could carry on.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

A young man's distractions are far more potent than an old man's memories,'he told me. He said that in the end memory is a cheat and a lie and no substitute for what he called the real stuff, the stuff of life.

I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

slavery would make us—and the idea—completely irredeemable. How can the shining city on the hill be capable of such evil? We would rather find comfort and safety in the lie than try to resolve this question. But, in the end, we have to allow this "innocent" idea of white America to die. It is irredeemable, but that does not mean we are too.