Quotes: Lie

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

It’s a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari’a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, ‘Please don’t write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it’s bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.’

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon’s own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it’s all too clear the horror of what went on.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don’t really socialize with the other actors.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.