Carry Consequence

Come Back To Bite You

Compound

Cross A Line

End A Friendship

Need An Apology

Need Forgiveness

Snowball

Stain Your Record

Start A Fight

Stick In Your Craw

Cockney Rhyming Slang

lip synching

The lie is a condition of life. Friedrich Nietzsche

is a stab at the health of human society.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. Ralph Waldo Emerson

is always in need of a truth for a handle to it.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. Henry Ward Beecher

is an act with a sharp focus designed to insert a particular falsehood at a specific point. The liar must think he knows what is true.

Telling a lie is an act with a sharp focus. It is designed to insert a particular falsehood at a specific point. . . . In order to invent a lie at all, [the teller of a lie] must think he knows what is true'.

is at its worst when it takes the form of a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. William James

is beautiful, without a doubt. But so are lies.

beautiful, without a doubt. But so are lies.

is less loathsome than a truth that's told with bad intent.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake

lie, n.All

lie