Lie Quotes

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

Truth, Before, Around

A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Good, Truth, Reason

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, Jr.

Truth, Society, Moment

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

Music, Happen, Through

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles Spurgeon

Truth, Travel, Around

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama

Goodness, Roots, Soil

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark Twain

Around, Belong, Neglected

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain

Youth, Ignorant, Boy

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain

Between, Lives, Cat

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
Mark Twain

Between, Lives, Difference

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

Great, Truth, Enemy

Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin

Great, Truth, Often

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Others, Lies, Himself

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

Age, Live, Young

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, May, Sometimes

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian

Integrity, Single, Whole

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Simple, Doubly

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. Mencken

Truth, Free, Tell

The lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Condition

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
Paulo Coelho

Someone, Eyes, Looks

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

Truth, Judge, Care

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Plato

Stones, Builders, Larger

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

Truth, Big, Adds

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
Cristiano Ronaldo

Hypocrite, Why, Others

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
Charlie Sheen

Marriage, Heart, Leave

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Leo Buscaglia

Love, Promise, Destroys

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Pope John Paul II

Worse, Terrible, Excuse

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

May, Confused, Emotions

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Vladimir Lenin

Truth, Enough, Often

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