Quotes About Lie

An excuse is a reason stuffed with a lie. The problem with excuses is that as long as we hold on to them, we will not see change.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

When a lie speaks the truth, should we judge by appearance or attitude?"

I am a spy," Carter said, relighting his pipe. I lie as a matter of course. So do you.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

Repetition, volume, and longevity will twist and turn a myth, a lie, into a commonly accepted way of doing things.

I throw out love like an anchor and wait where the long house lights of strangers tickle the river's back … Isn't it right to drag the rivers for the bodies not even the nets could catch? I won't lie, I want you to lie with me on the tumbling surface of love. from "Sailing the Back River

I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is.

But — and here is the crucial point — it was difficult to rebut that anti-gay slur [i.e., that the abuse crisis in the Catholic church is about pedophilia by gay priests] for the scapegoating it was, precisely because of that cloak of denial around the Church's broader sexual dishonesty. Gay priests, too, were forced to live a lie.

Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?"--Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor

A lie is an act of theft. It steals people's faith and makes them resent themselves

As I stand in the vestibule of self-abnegation, I wish to say that I have no regrets. Unfortunately, that would be the foulest lie. I fiercely regret my impending absence.

Not only around our infancyDoth heaven with all its splendors lie;Daily, with souls that cringe and plot,We Sinais climb and know it not.

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

I told a lie. You must forgive me. I broke an oath, letting him perish. Should I have chosen him to survive, knowing his heritage?

There was a brief silence, during which Philippa Somerville fought and won a battle to keep her eyes dry. Lymond said, 'I give you my word. It was a lie.' Philippa looked at him. 'And I don't deserve that ,' she said.

What do you expect Cust to tell you?" Hercule Poirot smiled. "A lie," he said. "And by it, I shall know the truth!

Every lie contains truth, and every truth contains a lie

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

That's the nightmare for Elizabeth Warren, because I can attack her from the left. I can say, 'Wait a minute, what do you know about the journey of a person of color? You know nothing. This is all theory to you. Because you did lie. You took advantage of affirmative action.'

I'm not gonna lie: I was not a big 'Star Wars' geek.

I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter to fight, or to go yourself. So often, we are lied to and manipulated by our governments for their own very cynical reasons.

Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.

Hey, Kate, we missed you," Leah said, as she sat on a stool at the counter. "We were so busy today, I hardly had time to think. I don't know what Aunt Sue would have done if I hadn't been here to help out. It was chaos." I was babbling. "What can I get you guys?" Another lie, maybe?