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He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.
— Alice Cooper
A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he's never given an opportunity to show what he's made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
— Xenophon
Virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy. In these three basic forms of optimism lies the death of tragedy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Here it was, the first of many lies he'd have to come up with. "Bella threw a knife at my head." He'd do better with the next lie.
— Nicole Castle
A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.
— Mahmoud Darwish
No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
— Samuel Johnson
[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?
— Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio
Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well.
— Walter Winchell
The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.
— Garry Kasparov
If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock ...
— Joss Whedon
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
— Thomas Paine
If a man fights with truth, in time, he will be victorious. If he fights with lies, after he is exposed; in time, he will be left alone.
— Tonny K. Brown
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
— Clifford D. Simak
A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.
— Anthony Trollope
I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.
— Evelyn Waugh
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
— Karl Kraus
He'd learned that lies were only dangerous if you sometimes told the truth.
— Maggie Stiefvater
When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer [ ... ] his unique opportunity lies in the way he bears his burden.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
— Catherynne M Valente
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
— Oriana Fallaci
His life had been wrecked by lies and he'd be falling forever because there was no one to catch him.
— Barbara Elsborg
Blood is thicker than water,
The young man said
As he knifed his friend
For a drooling old bitch
And a house full of lies. — Ernest Hemingway,
The young man said
As he knifed his friend
For a drooling old bitch
And a house full of lies. — Ernest Hemingway,
The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.
— Deacon Jones
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.
— Josh Billings
Here lies Joseph II, who was unfortunate in everything that he undertook
— Jackson J. Spielvogel
He gave me lies, and for him, I closed my eyes.
— L.J. Shen
He who has no conviction always lies, no matter what he says.
— Adolf Von Harnack
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Arin thought of Cheat, Tensen, Kestrel. He wondered if some part of him was drawn to lies. What was it that made him so easy to deceive?
— Marie Rutkoski
If I ever see a man in a rug again, I'm not going to believe a single word he says! A man who lies about having hair will lie about anything.
— Joanne Fluke
I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
— Ken MacLeod
But if a man truly loved you, he would see the beauty that lies much deeper than those scars.
— Sarah Holman
He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
— C.S. Lewis
My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'
— Damon Lindelof
Was the cake at least good? He knows where my heart lies.
— Katja Millay
The enemy is fierce and he would like for you to think that he has on. Don't believe his lie.
— Brother Andrew
It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.
— Stephen Samuel Wise
He lies to himself the way he lies to me. He believes this. He actually believes that he was good to me.
— Paula Hawkins
The devil does not have a fork Brianna, he has a whip
— Michael Grant
He who feeds on gossip vomits lies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.
— William Shakespeare
If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.
— Christine Feehan
Nice talk," he hears Lennie say dimly from the insane universe where God has clearly died and lies stinking on the floor of a pillaged heaven.
— Stephen King
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.
— Mario Puzo
He is momentarily filled with a kind of pity for his son. What a task lies ahead of him: to learn literally everything.
— Maggie O'Farrell
Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
— Sophocles
His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn't breathe.
— Sidney Knight
We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
— Bill Bradley
Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth's charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?
— Colleen Chen
It is not only he who speaks contrary to what he knows who lies, but even more he who speaks contrary to what he does not know
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He alone fails who gives up and lies down.
— Ralph Waldo Trine
Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.
— Mother Teresa
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown
— Honore De Balzac
Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.
— Jennifer Crusie
Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.
— Sam Harris
Troubled sleep was no stranger to him. He had lived his lies for fourteen years,
— George R R Martin
The twentieth will be a short century," he said. "Either we or the Soviets will launch the missiles before long, and all the lies will be burned away.
— David Burr Gerrard
People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, ... ,and he had very red hair.
— J.D. Salinger