Lied quotes
85 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still ."
"the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth"
"To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe."
"I don't like being lied to."
"I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth."
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"But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane."
"You should be afraid. Very afraid. Before, I told you if you wanted to end things between us, I would let you go, but, Leila"--his voice deepened--"I lied."
"All who love have lied."
"I lied to Julia, I didn't know what else to do because you - you make me feel..." I had to stop. Not because I didn't have words. I did. But I was afraid to say them. He looked at me, and I knew then I could love him. That if I let myself I would. "You make me feel too," he said, and held out one hand."
"I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth."
"I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now."
"Sometimes you do know, in 'Commando' when I said 'I lied', I knew that it was going to be a funny line. I've never had a bad line."
"To have lied is to have suffered."
"I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work."
"There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet."
"Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true."
"We are the species that clamors to be lied to."
