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Quotes About Lie

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
~ Pablo Picasso
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?
~ Stephenie Meyer
Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
Truth never was indebted to a lie
~ Edward Young
Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.
~ Allen Ginsberg
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
~ Jack Kerouac
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.
~ Marieta Maglas
Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
~ Tanya Huff, Smoke and Shadows
Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!
~ Sidney Howard
What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
~ Marie Corelli
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
~ Charles Churchill
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
~ William Shakespeare
You cannot make a demand on your life that exceeds your belief about it. Your belief is creating a personal law. It's not the truth, but a lie believed will act like a law until it's neutralized.
~ Derek Rydall
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
~ H. Rap Brown
Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
~ Tim O'Brien
Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.
~ Lauren DeStefano, Fever
Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
~ Anthony Marais, The Cure
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
~ George Herbert
A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.
~ Paula Fox