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Quotes About Lie

Take this in to them, s'il vous plaît, " Chef Véronique's large ruddy hand trembled slightly as she motioned to the trays. "And bring out the pots already there. They'll want fresh tea." She knew this was a lie. What the family wanted they could never have again. But tea was all she could give them. So she made it. Over and over.
~ Louise Penny
The hearts of men are hard as stone. The man has no need of the tear. The man has no need of the lie. The man has no weakness. The man kills. The man dies. That is the boon and the burden of the man.
~ Unknown
I know just how to whisper, I know just how to cry, I know where to find the answers, and I know just how to lie, I know just how to fake it, and I know just how to scheme, I know just when to fake the truth and when to stick to dreams.
~ Unknown
I am happy, thats just the saddest lie...
~ Kid Cudi
You can run with a lie but you can't hide from the truth!
~ Unknown
A lie is not enough to prove you are a liar. Lie helps people to forget about the things you have done in past and remain constant for whole future as doubt.
~ Unknown
There is only one sin that is theft... when you tell a lie you steel someone's right to truth.
~ Unknown
I promise if you give me one opportunity; I show you off to the world, never lie, kiss you hard, make you feel special, never turn my back and most important make you my priority.
~ Unknown
The fishhook catches the fish
~ Unknown
And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.
~ Colin Mochrie
As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.
~ Diane Ackerman
When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.
~ Diane Setterfield
Cuando el miedo y el frío hacen de ti una estatua en tu propia cama, no ansíes que la Verdad pura y dura acuda en tu auxilio. Lo que necesitas es el mullido consuelo de un relato. La protección balsámica, adormecedora, de una mentira.
~ Diane Setterfield
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.
~ Diane Setterfield
My objective, now as before, is to do to the new Nazi paradigm what my previous book did to the old race narrative, namely, blow it out of the water. Here I refute their bogus narrative, expose their big lie, and pin the Nazi tail precisely where it belongs—on the Democratic donkey.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
The cover-up is the work of progressives in education and the media. The progressives are part of the Democratic team; they are, in fact, the ideologues of the party. They have been given a very specific assignment: to bury the truth and spin a lie to sell their team's political merchandise. This they have assiduously and effectively carried out. Progressives can be counted on to respond with outrage to this book, not because what I say is false, but rather because it is true.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
When truth is replaced by a lie, the truth is a lie." ? Jack Cohen
~ Unknown
listen carnales listen to the hymn of it, the lie of it, the prayer of it, the voices singing our names: listen it's our story, it's our song
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
~ John F. Kennedy
For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
~ John F. Kennedy
I saw that this cataclysm must be an expiation for some barbarous crime of civilization, some terrible human lie. What the lie was, I had too little knowledge of history or science to know then. I know now it was our believing that we were fulfilling some end, serving some plan—that all would come out well in the end, because there was some great plan over all. Instead of the reality. There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.
~ John Fowles
our hearts, we saw that as a lie, no doubt
~ John G. Lake
deal with self-righteous prosecutors who lie, cheat, stonewall, cover up, ignore ethics, and do whatever it takes to get a conviction, even when they know the truth and the truth tells them they are wrong.
~ John Grisham
Time flies, dreams die, people lose faith, Tryna hide behind a lie with a straight face.
~ Xzibit