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Quotes About Lie

The ugliest truth is better than the prettiest lie.
~ Harlan Coben
But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.
~ Harper Lee
WWE can say they don't watch Impact and TNA but I know that's a lie.
~ Gail Kim
I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
~ Sylvester Stallone
Now I don't want to lie to you, there were some Blacks in the neighborhood, but they asses was so uptight I figured if I asked them a question they'd want me to pay for the answer.
~ Sister Souljah
We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Denial may be neither a matter of telling the truth nor intentionally telling a lie. There seem to be states of mind, or even whole cultures, in which we know and don't know at the same time.
~ Stanley Cohen
Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
~ David Deida
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
~ Graham Greene
The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
~ Vernon Howard
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
~ Pablo Picasso
Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.
~ Michael Jackson
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.
~ Isaac Asimov
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
~ Grace Slick
Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.
~ Christian Friedrich Hebbel
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .
~ Mark Twain
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
~ Paul the Apostle
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
~ Tim O'Brien
Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.
~ Mark Driscoll
They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.
~ Ani DiFranco
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
~ Voltaire