Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

You're now saying that you lied while working at Enron.

This is a simple case. It's not about accounting. It's about lies.

This is a simple case. It is not about accounting. It is about lies and choices.

There were so many lies throughout the trial.

There were several of them (lies), weren't there?

George R. R. Martin

Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.

He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter, but he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her

Susan Love

Breast cancer: Where we are and what lies ahead.

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Green Day

Billie-Joe: Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1%, lie about it

Sean Penn

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

Andy Cole

It would be a lie if I said I didn't have any reservations about returning to Manchester,

These witnesses lied to you and they lied to you repeatedly,

The story she sold was something she had fabricated. She lied to the News of the World.

Guy Ritchie

a very serious relationship. ... I will say marriage may lie in the future.

Alexander Haig

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Georges Bernanos

The worst, the most corrupting of lies, are problems poorly stated,

Pete Best

The way I look at it, ... just let it lie now.

The women that lie upon couches and upon beds, and they that rest in litters, the women all that exhale sweet fragrance, do we put to sleep.

Cesare Pavese

The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.

James Salter

I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the imagination. I would rather be in a room with someone who is telling the story of his life, which may be exaggerated and even have lies in it, but I want to hear the true story, essentially.

I see what lies ahead, ... It's win or go home.

I've been outright lied to by public works. If they lied to me once, they'll lie to me again.

I'm not going to lie, ... It scared me.

Haley Barbour

I want to talk to the speaker and the lieutenant governor,

Alex Garcia

Once they're in the cell, and they lie down or whatever they do, nature takes its own course.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

It's interesting that she put this in a memo. A police report with lies in it is a very serious offense. If she lies like that, you have to wonder what kind of stuff she puts in other reports.

Oprah Winfrey

No, the lie of it. That's a lie. It's not an idea, James, that's a lie.

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Robert Byrne

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.