Quotes About Lie

You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.

Truth is the safest lie.

Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?... And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost.

That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

It is the truth, but not the whole truth; and half a truth is as bad as a lie.

There is no lie that does not have at its core some truth. One must only know how to listen.

For I was not, as I liked to think, the indulgent pleasure-loving opposite of the cold rigid Colonel. I was the lie that Empire tells itself when times are easy, he the truth that Empire tells when harsh winds blow.

Don't trust me. Don't like me. I could give a shit. But don't you ever lie to me.

You're just too mean to find a grave and lie down"-Tohr to Wrath.

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.

Such verdicts are crimes against truth. The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

In a war of truth and lie, lie retreats always with shame and pity.

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

He strikes me as a psychopath, and they lie easier than they tell the truth.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

Everything which happened before my meeting her was a premonition; everything I did after I killed her was an apology; not for killing her, but for the lie that was my life.

You can always tell about motels," Al advises. "You wanna lie low, pick one's gotta car with a flat parked at a unit" "Why?" I ask. "Car with a flat says cash, cheap, and close.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth