Tell No Lie Quotes

Why, thou deboshed fish thou ... Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster? — William Shakespeare

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree. — George Washington

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment
are all the blackest of black lies. — Emily Post

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. — Steven Pressfield

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

Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep. — Rebecca McNutt

Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick. — Meg Cabot

How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? — Irving Berlin

We lie to each other all the time, remember?' she said with an amused smile.
'Tell me,' Archie said, 'and I'll believe you. — Chelsea Cain

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. — Adolf Hitler

Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't. — Nicola Formichetti

Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying. — Teller

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

The more often a person tell a lie-the more time u hear lie,u begin to believe it-if it's told often enough,u start begin to believe it — Michael J. Jackson

It seems too easy to lie in the moment but you always have to tell more lies on top of it to cover your tracks. — Candace Cameron

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them. — Mark Twain

Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth. — Robin Williams

Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do this smile thing. — Cecelia Ahern

Couldn't tell if the truth looked like a lie, or a lie the truth. — Marie Rutkoski

I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do. — Steven Galloway

he will certainly tell some lie to save appearances. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie. — John Lydon

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

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

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. — Albert Camus

Never tell a lie-except for practice. — Mark Twain

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

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

Don't lie!' 'Tell the truth!' are words which we must never say to another person in so far as we consider him our equal. — Milan Kundera

You are a liar by default, and you lie most to yourself. If you fail, you forget it. If you win, you tell everyone. — David McRaney

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

Hatred doesn't lie. Hatred doesn't tell soothing stories. You'll tell me true.' ~ Hadrian — Kate Quinn

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie. — Elaine Stritch

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain. — Bill Cosby

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

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over. — Patrick Marber

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

Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself. — Teller

I'll tell you why yes, because why people lie is, because when people stop lying you know they've stopped caring. — William Gaddis

Sometimes," Sam says, "I can't tell when you're lying."
"I never lie," I lie. — Holly Black

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth. — Simona Panova

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

Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet. — George Washington

Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all! — Walel Watson

I want to beg him not to leave. Tell him that I'm still here. But I lie frozen. All I can do is watch as he gets up. And disappears from my view. — Susan Ee

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth. — Louis De Bernieres

There can be no moral authority to tell you what to do, for no such authority can lie outside your own will. — Steve Hagen

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell. — David Attenborough

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth. — Samuel Johnson

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

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

There is no way to tell which version of a lie is the truth. — Steven Galloway

I doubt he'd give me the smell from his farts - no, tell a lie: in that one respect he's being more than generous. — Ian Rankin