And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but
The truth in masquerade.
-George Gordon Byron
Every lie is an aspect of the Truth.
-Anthony Paul Moo-Young, "Mooji"
One may sometimes tell a lie,
but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If you're lying, you're lying.
-John C. Maxwell
A white lie
will turn coal black in telling
-The Occulatum
A multitude of words cloaks a lie.
-Nigerian Proverb
Lying is done with words
and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
-Adlai Stevenson
I never lie because I don't fear anyone.
You only lie when you are afraid.
-John Gotti
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear
in one form or another.
-Aleister Crowley
Anytime you catch folks lying,
they're scared of something!
-Zora Neale Hurston
No one lies so boldly
as the man who is indignant.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes two to lie.
One to lie and one to listen.
-"Homer Simpson"
It takes two people to make a lie work:
the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
-Jodi Picoult
Who lies for you will lie against you.
-Bosnian Proverb
Things come apart so easily
when they have been held together with lies.
-Dorothy Allison
The lie has seven endings.
-Swahili Proverb
Someone who always has to lie
discovers that every one of his lies is true.
-Elias Canetti
There are times when lying is the most sacred of duties.
-Eugene Marin Labiche
Even a lie is truthful
If it does unsullied good.
-Tiruvalluvar
If it does unsullied good.
-Tiruvalluvar
Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
-Victor Hugo
It is sometimes necessary to lie to others
it is despicable to lie to oneself.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie.
-George Herbert
