Quotes About Lie

Sex murders were usually the work of psychopaths and with that psychology was an innate ability to lie, to act, to feign surprise and horror when it was needed. Psychopaths were great liars.

I have always believed that the quickest way off a jury panel is to announce that you are convinced that all cops lie or all cops are always right. Either way, a closed mind is a challenge for cause.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it's only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.

Edison was not a wholly attractive human being. He didn't scruple to cheat or lie, and was prepared to steal patents or bribe journalists for favorable coverage. In the words of one of his contemporaries, he had "a vacuum where his conscience ought to be." But he was enterprising and hardworking and a peerless organizer.

The English poet Alexander Pope said, "An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

In government, you can always improve your lie.

It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world.

Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it. --from Elm, written 19 April 1962

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it --from Elm, written 19 April 1962

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it Listen: these are its hooves: it has gone off, like a horse.

and with a tolerant smile that was a superior lie, I walked on.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

The world had made an agreement with fear to keep it safe, but that safety was a lie wielded like a sword, turning the world into a sea of blood. Humanity had been murdering itself for a very long time. Only love could cast out that fear.

I'd be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to the conquered is based on a lie.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.

Joe Biden is not the first person in his family to have gone to college. But he has a lengthy history of claiming otherwise, no matter how much the lie gets him in trouble.

Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

That is such a lie, and by our friend, Mr. Miranda, who has been lying to us since we hired him…