Top 1200 Don't Lie Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing that that is their deal: to lie ahead of time. There is zero news value in that.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

Don’t ask me any more questions, Keller. I’m just going to lie to you and I’d rather not have the stress of trying to remember what lie I handed you. (Alexion)

If you're neurotic and you think, I'm not where I deserve to be or my mother didn't love me, or blah, blah, blah, that lie, that neurotic vision, takes over your life and you're plagued by it 'til it's cleansed. In a play, at the end of the play, the lie is revealed. [T]he better the play is, the more surprising and inevitable the lie is, as Aristotle told us. Plays are about lies.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

A recent study found that people lie more when they are texting. Yeah, especially that one lie: "Sorry, just got your text!

Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.

The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.

All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces. (a servant in the House of Black and White)

Why does anyone lie? 'Cause we're scared or crazy, maybe just because we're mean. I guess there's a million reason to lie, and I might've told that many...but none like that. I guess there's always that one lie we never get over. What? Oh, maybe you don't know about it yet. Maybe you never tell a lie so big it can eat away a part of you. But if you ever do...and if you get lucky...you might a chance to set it right. Just one chance to change it. Then it's gone. And it never comes back again.

The New York Times, they lie. They lie like I've never seen anything. They know they're lying. One of these guys wrote a story - Rutenberg, Jim Rutenberg, a story. Literally they'll do whatever they have to do. He practically they insinuated... they'll lie and tell whatever they have to say. These are vicious people. These are lying people, and fortunately I can defend myself.

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.

If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it's your opponents and the journalists who lie.

You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face when I come outside.

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

Bruce lives a lie. She is not a lie. I can't do it anymore.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

When you're able to shoot in Europe and internationally, those locations don't lie. The feeling doesn't lie, the quality of the light. You can always tell when it's shot in London.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so its not a lie.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

The president is on national TV apologizing for getting oral sex. Why didn't he just stick with his lie? You got to stick with your lie. If you lie, you have to believe that lie whole-heartedly. It has to become the truth for you. But this man, the most powerful man in the world, is on national TV apologizing for receiving oral sex. He's an idiot. There are men sitting in here right now who would gladly accept oral sex on national TV.

Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?

Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

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.

I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.'

Women lie, men lie, numbers don't.

It's hard for me to lie, I'd stumble with my words if I tried to lie.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

Little white lies are part of everyday life. If youre in court being charged with a felony, youre probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; youre going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; its human nature.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.