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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me. — Jimmy Buffett

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth. — Chapman Cohen

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap. — Maxwell Maltz

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond. — Leo Tolstoy

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears
but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. — Samuel Butler

Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that is six inches from your right forefinger. — Robert A. Heinlein

Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie. — Fiona Apple

If a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone — Paulo Coelho

True Stories are fragments. Anything longer is a lie, a fabrication — Bilal Tanweer

No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell. — Alcoholics Anonymous

There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Fiction is a lie covering up a deep truth. — Maria Vargas Llosa

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie. — Will Oldham

Half of tradition is a lie. — Stephen Crane

It's a lie to feel any war is far away. — Michelle Detorie

The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don't really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie. — Seanan McGuire

A lie has many colours,
while white is the only faithful colour of truth. — Munia Khan

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie
True Poems flee - — Emily Dickinson

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. — Roland Smith

Nothing that I say in my music is a lie. — Shy Glizzy

Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar. — Patrick DeWitt

All religions segregate also ... every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie. — R.J. Rushdoony

A lie believed to be truth will be lived is if it is true — Roger House

A lie has forgiveness. A deceive doesn't. The difference is in lying to protect and deceiving to harm. — Eulalia Marques

Fascism is a lie, but an alluring one". — Ken Follett

First, you need to realize everything you thought you knew about yourself, about me, is a lie. — Angela Parkhurst

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay. — Jodi Picoult

A lie told in the service of truth is virtue. — Brent Weeks

For no one should consider anything his own, except perhaps a lie, since all truth is from Him who said, I am the truth. — Augustine Of Hippo

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing-if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination. — Hal Borland

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin. — Sun Myung Moon

Life is a lie if you do not find the eternal truth. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs. — Paul G. Hoffman

Love spills out of these people. That's what I want. Settling for anything less is a lie. — Katherine Reay

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. — Claire LaZebnik

Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.
-Albus Dumbledore — J.K. Rowling

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes. — Ray Bradbury

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. — Richard Steele

Just when a man makes a decision that everything he's believed his whole life is a lie, something comes along tempting him to believe again. — Brent Weeks

History is replete with blunders written by sycophants. — Tomichan Matheikal

I exaggerate
There is a lie in my truth
Look! My soul is blue — A.A. Patawaran

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children. — Philip K. Dick

The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it. — Mark Twain

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn — Abbi Glines

So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else. — Meg Rosoff

Life is so simple: We walk; we sit; we lie horizontal. That's about it. Everything else is a story about what's going on while we're doing it. — Byron Katie

Animals and children tell the truth they never lie,
Which one is more human,
There's a thought now you decide — Savage Garden

Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but yourself. — Meredith Duran

If making things seem prettier than they are is a lie, then making them seem uglier must be another. — Richard Russo

Tell me you want me, too..Tell me you lie in bed at night and when you close your eyes, you see me. Because all I can see is you. — A.L. Jackson

A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass. — Lawrence Block

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie. — R.D. Laing

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool. — Hans Christian Von Baeyer

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. — Michel De Montaigne

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows. — C.S. Lewis

Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get in Yankee Stadium. — Derek Jeter

It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow. — Hugh Prather

She said a good day ain't got no rain
She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed
And I think of things that might have been — Paul Simon

The only truth that matters, is the truth within. For without that truth can be made a lie. — Sarah Pussell

Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach. — L. Ron Hubbard

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it. — Jonathan Swift

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. — Henry Ward Beecher

There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity. Edmond — Alexandre Dumas

The way you teach a child to eat well is through example, enthusiasm, and patient exposure to good food. And when that fails, you lie. — Bee Wilson

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man. — Immanuel Kant

A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is. — Martin Luther

Don't lie to a liar, and Maven is the grandest liar of all. — Victoria Aveyard

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do. — Twyla Tharp

The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail. — Sue Monk Kidd

Life is Most Important in Life is The Most important Truth in Life. Any word, thought, or action that disagrees must be a lie. — David Wishengrad

A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie. — Stephen Fry

Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary — Paul Hoffman

TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off — Sylvia Plath

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is. — Josh Billings

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie. — R.C. Sproul

A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive. — Robert Breault

The most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is that writing novels shouldn't feel like a job. — Kameron Hurley

Such verdicts are crimes against truth. The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly. — Jack London

Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another. — Douglas Horton

When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self. — Barry Long

I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am. — J.D. Salinger

It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie. — Byron Katie

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can. — Stephen King

What if everything you have been taught is all a lie and everything you feel is all a truth? — Nikki Rowe

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie. — Patrick Kavanagh

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. — Alexander Pope

A secret is like a bag you have to lug around all the time - each day you add another lie, and it just gets heavier and harder to carry on your own. — Dave Cousins

I'll tell you the truth, everything you hear is a lie. — Jeff Shear

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it. — William James

What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth? — Andrzej Sapkowski

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would. — Mark Cuban

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ? — Donna Leon

The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not. — Ellen Hopkins

What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth? — Saurabh Sharma

It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. — Graham Greene

Friendship is in the end no more than: " ... a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone." — Marcel Proust