Quotes About Lie

There is no door to God through dope; that is a lie peddled by the unscrupulous.

It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like that, anyway. He's not even worth a lie.

It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

I was hurt, though I do not deserve to be. If you lie, you become the lie.

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

There are times when a satisfying lie is better than the awful truth.

For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;The truth is great, and shall prevail,When none cares whether it prevail or not.

Art is the lie that tells the truth

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

A secret is a burden. It's exhausting, a lie.

If you had my love And I gave you all my trust Would you comfort me And if somehow you knew that your love would be untrue Would you lie to me And call me baby

I could not tame my nature down; for he Must serve who fain would sway -- and soothe -- and sue -- And watch all time -- and pry into all place -- And be a living lie -- who would become A mighty thing amongst the mean, and such The mass are; I disdained to mingle with A herd, though to be leader -- and of wolves. The lion is alone, and so am I.

The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run.

Ma'am, the way this usually works is that I ask you a question, and then you tell me a lie. If you give me a dishonest answer before I have the chance to ask the question, it offends my sense of propriety." Her

He had always thought that a Native American should have shot Robert Frost for the outrageous lie of the line "The land was ours before we were the land's." What a scandal that would be, America's best-loved geezer falling in a battle over poetry.

The story about race that was embedded into America at the founding of our nation was a lie; it is time to change that story and discover a new one.

He sent Leah a text--*truck fine miss u like always april too all my lv*--and none of it was a lie. There were burning truths in that message.

He stood there a moment longer, fantasizing once again of rescuing Lori Love. She'd turned out to be a damsel in distress after all, but not the innocent, helpless kind. No, she was a damsel of a different sort. The brave kind who fought and lied and stole and did really dirty things with the knight in shining armor. Just before she sent him on his way with a pat on the back. And that was that.

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.

We got to lie in bed quietly every morning, instead of getting up for breakfast with Dad. Life had finally gotten back to normal. Thank goodness that whole school thing was over and done with.