Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
~ James Hall
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
~ Avigdor Lieberman
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
~ Marilyn Manson
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
~ Pablo Picasso
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
~ Theodor Adorno
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
~ H. L. Mencken
I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.
~ River Phoenix
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
~ Alfred Adler
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
~ Alexander Pope
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
~ John Grierson
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
~ James Callaghan
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
~ Susan Sontag
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
~ Samuel Butler
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
~ Aldous Huxley
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
~ Harry S Truman
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.
~ Horace Walpole
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
~ I. F. Stone
Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.
~ Patty Jenkins
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
~ William Wyler
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.
~ Aisha Tyler
The drawings in 'Portal' were actually me scribbling that stuff... I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten 'The cake is a lie' tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That... that's odd.
~ Kim Swift
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.
~ Virginia Postrel
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.
~ Terry Eagleton
I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
~ Simon Pegg
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
~ Martin Amis
It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
~ Youssou N'dour
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.
~ Pamela Meyer
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
~ James Bovard
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
~ Belle Boyd
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
~ Jack Nicholson
If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.
~ Joe Rogan
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
~ Thomas Huxley
