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It was one lesson that she could not bring herself to learn. If someone was going to tell a lie, they would tell it with a smile. — Joseph R. Lallo

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

It has become a custom among the Legions to promise one's fellows that no matter what happens, they will never lie cold upon the earth. — Jim Butcher

No one is normal. Normal is a lie. — Heidi Cullinan

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

Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the meaning of one's life. — Leo Tolstoy

Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie. — William Shakespeare

A lie stands on one foot but the truth stands on 2. — Trenton Lee Stewart

The cabins scattered across the lower slopes lie buried to their chimneys, and with not a one of them smoking, the air smells too clean. — Blake Crouch

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie. — Criss Jami

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves. — Luigi Pirandello

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie. — John Berryman

As if one was mistaken in believing that love protects life. As if it were a lie that love is a blessing. — Unica Zurn

From one small lie her dream had transformed into a hideous nightmare — Emma Calin

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits. — Rebecca West

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. — Jayson Blair

Reproductive freedom is not just the ability not to have a child through birth control. It's the ability to have one if and when you want. — Pamela Madsen

No one showed any signs of recognizing me. I didn't know what I'd do if they did, other than lie like a devil and pray like a saint. — Rodney Jones

Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse. — Rebecca McNutt

One of these days, I won't have a painful deadline! That's a lie, I probably always will. — Amy Daws

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two. — Benjamin Franklin

There is only one sin. and that is theft ... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. — Khaled Hosseini

I got a feeling your statements are true but all they add up to is one big lie. — Vincent Gardenia

...the assertion that you live in a lie while I live in the truth is the most cruel thing one person can say to another... — Leo Tolstoy

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth. — Benazir Bhutto

Funny how one lie leads to another and before you know it, your whole life can be a lie. I sit on the porch swing later, not even — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

You wouldn't know what the fuck to do in a dangerous situation if your life depended on it. And it would, little one. — Tara Sivec

One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth. — Adam Snowflake

As many have observed, it is easy to tell a lie, but it is almost impossible to tell only one. — Harriet Lerner

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward. — Mira Grant

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one. — Mark Twain

One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity. — Tupac Shakur

If you tell a lie, tell a big one. — Joseph Goebbels

If I were a religious person, I would have been very freaking one; mixture of logic and lie. — M.F. Moonzajer

The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and when does it put us. How just by one religion a lot of people live in the lie! — Deyth Banger

I should know better than to lie. But a lie is what they need to carry on, and if my deceit saves even one of them, it is worth the cost to my soul. — Victoria Aveyard

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

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night. — Charles M. Schulz

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do. — Gautama Buddha

The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true. — Lois McMaster Bujold

There was a saying among the Mundo: It takes only one lie to unravel the world. — Alice Walker

One doesn't lie down with a lion and get to act surprised if one finds oneself devoured. — Graham Moore

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before. — Robert Lynd

My God, think of the opportunities and thrusts that lie ahead when one knows without a shred of doubt how commonplace and normal one is at heart! — J.D. Salinger

Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one. — Russell Brand

If you tell one lie, you have to tell more to keep the first lie alive. A story is a good lie with an exit strategy. — Kelvin Kwa

But I know a lie when I hear one. — Elizabeth Scott

The easiest lie ever told is a truth no one believes.- Sixteen Seconds — Aubrea Summer

Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control. — Alexei Nikolaevich

Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I know a lie when I hear one. — Adrian Mitchell

There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another? — Kristen Callihan

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me. — Julianne Hough

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

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

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

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

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

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

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one. — Adolf Hitler

One lie can tarnish a thousand truths. — Al David

Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse. — Robert Musil

My reflection tells one story.
My heart, a different one.
The difference is,
hearts don't lie.
Mirrors do. — Lisa Schroeder

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

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

It hurts to leave a lie, but it hurts more to live one. — Brent Weeks

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

...the face of Christ in your van der Goes, no one could call that a lie. — William Gaddis

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths. — Al David

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit. — Robert J. Flaherty

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it. — Jodi Picoult

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

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments. — Brandon Sanderson

No one forgets his pain, that's a lie. It's buried there in memory and remains in you forever. — Manlio Argueta

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude. — Idries Shah

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell

If you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie. — Michelle Wie

I'll lie still for a lot of things - but sex isn't one of them. — Joan Rivers

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one. — John Kendrick Bangs

It would almost be easier to have woken up and found that everything about her life was a lie, instead of just this one awful truth. — Debra Ginsberg

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly. — Tom Clancy

Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing. — Leigh Allison Wilson

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes. — Elbert Hubbard

It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie — Anthony Venn-Brown

When one lives in the midst of a lie long enough, it becomes a part of you whether you want to rationally accept it or not. — Leanne Payne

Nonsense of this type is more difficult to combat than a solid lie. It hides in rubbish heaps and moves when no one is looking. — E. M. Forster

The difference between a truth and a lie is determined when one chose to accept the other. — Anonymous

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one. — Adolf Hitler

First one tells a lie; then one believes it; then one becomes it. — Marty Rubin

The one kiss that was stolen, was given in a lie. — Anthony Liccione

One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie. — Karl Marx

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie? — Martin Luther

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
(The Record Lie) — A.A. Milne

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. — A.W. Tozer

It's one thing to have a profound experience, and it's quite another to kill a lie that's served you a long time. — John S. Lynch