Lie
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead.
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.
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