Lie Quotes

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

~ Jimi Hendrix

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

~ Jackson Browne

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

~ Agnes De Mille

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

~ Lucille Ball

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

~ H. L. Mencken

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

~ Demi Moore

No lie ever reaches old age.

~ Sophocles

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.

~ Henry B. Eyring

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

~ Roger Ebert

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

~ Damon Albarn

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

~ Havelock Ellis

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

~ Barbara Kruger

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

~ John Muir

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.

~ Catherine Zeta-Jones

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

~ Hugo Claus

You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.

~ Steve Harvey

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

~ Georg Büchner

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

~ Harold Taylor

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

~ Bo Bennett

President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.

~ Ben Shapiro

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

~ Anne Frank

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

~ Pamela Meyer

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

~ Wole Soyinka

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

~ Eric Hoffer

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.

~ Todd Rundgren

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

~ Gottfried Leibniz

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

~ Tad Williams

Most days, I have a slice of toast, then lie in a hot bath for an hour to get up a sweat. I have a sauna at the racecourse and then go and ride. On the way home, I might stop at a service station and have a bar of chocolate and a Diet Coke. And that's it, basically.

~ Tony Mccoy

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

~ Hippocrates

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

~ Vladimir Lenin

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

Half a truth is often a great lie.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

~ Martin Luther King

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

~ Pablo Picasso

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

~ Bob Dylan

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

~ Stephen King

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

~ Denis Diderot

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

~ Michael Jackson

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

~ Franz Kafka