Quotes About Lie

But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie imagined in despair of all desire. She now knew the pettiness of the passions which art exaggerated.

That is not dead, which can eternaly lie, and with strange eons, even death may die.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die." Only

Truth is truth. By definition. Anything else is a lie.

I've repeatedly seen unscrupulous lenders use every con in the book to charm and lie to homeowners. Lenders actually paid brokers a premium to put people in higher-priced loans with toxic features, such as adjustable rates and prepayment penalties.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.

The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Bruno was a musician with the temperament of an anarchist and the breath of a bartender's dishrag. He gave the lie to bookselling as a genteel occupation.

Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!

Consciousness is a story that we tell ourselves. But what if that story is a lie?

Come here and lie on your stomach. I know how to give Swedish massages. It'll relax you." "You're not Swedish," I say. "Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference.

Go, Soul, the body's quest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best,The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.