If you can’t do it, don’t pledge to do it. Don’t be a liar; say only what you can do. It’s better for you to have a “single sentence” manifesto about your life which is...

Entertainer of the Year, to me, there’s never been any question that that’s one on my bucket list that I want. I’m not going to sit here and lie to you. If there’s one that...

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.

More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught...

I definitely used to lie about my age. I’m from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about...

And that’s the problem. When you’realive, people can hurt you. It’s easier to crawl into a bonecage or a snowdrift of confusion. It’s easier to lock everybodyout.But it’s a lie.

I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets… Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of...

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?

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

If you say that you never lie in life,you honestly insult my intelligence.

Truth itself is the best prudence.

If you never lie to yourself, you’ll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done...

When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Everyone have two faces, but mine are twins.

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you...

My eyes in tearsHeart never sighsMy mind never fearsI conquer the lies

the war taught me that nothing counts as much as loyalty” “Bullshit. you still haven’t learned that when humans are under pressure, we’re all willing to lie” “even to the people we care?” “we lie...

Mirrors lie.

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, ‘Man, you were so honest – can’t you have some fun? Can’t you do some...

He piled fib on top of lie on top of exaggeration and cemented it all with hyperbole.

Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we...

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

In wrestling, there is no retreat. No way to slow things down. In wrestling, you advance and advance, and being tired is just a lie to make the other guy think he can relax. It’s...

I cried for a while, taking solace in the comforting lie of his embrace. The illusion, the fantasy, it helped. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to stay here forever, held tight to his...

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Be not who you’re not

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

I know my brother. Michael, he’s not that kind of person. He doesn’t do that. That’s all a lie on him.

Everything they’ve said is tainted now. Every day was a lie.

You lie like butter wouldn’t melt in your mouth, Edward.”He smiled. “I don’t lie to you.””Really,” I said.The smile became a grin. “Okay, not most of the time, anymore.” His face sobered. “I’m not lying...

Even if you love a lady, don’t say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.

Gue cuma pengen lo ngerasain rasanya dibohongin. Nggak enak, kan?

So now they’re shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear. Not the truth, but some lie that will protect them from the truth

From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of...

I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart’s content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of...

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

Do unto others what you want them to do to you. Don’t deceive if you don’t want to be deceived. Don’t cheat if you don’t want to be cheated. Relationship is mutual. This is the...

The truth may roar, but it’s roaring does not terrify the blameless. Guilty conscience needs neither a critic nor an accuser. Remember, the truth has no aiding crutches; once it is limping, its name is...

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was...

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.