43 Metaphors for lie

It did not occur to him that a lie which is half the truth is the meanest kind of a lie.

Having been, through much anguish of flesh and spirit, taught that lying was a deadly sin, Toady rushed to the other extreme, and bolted out the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, at all times and places, with a startling abruptness that brought wrath and dismay upon his friends and relatives.

There was in the Zoroastrian thought only two rival principles in the universe, represented by Ormuzd and Ahriman, as the God of truth, and the father of lies; and the lie was ever and always an offspring of Ahriman, the evil principle: it could not emanate from or be consistent with the God of truth.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

It would have been, I am sure, one of the cases in which a lie would have been justifiablenay, praiseworthy, too.

piece o' money he mek he tek an' put some debblemen' on de under side, an' one o' his pootiess lies on top; an' 'e gilt dat lie, and 'e rub dat lie on 'is elbow, an' 'e shine dat lie, an' 'e put 'is bess licks on dat lie; entel ev'ybody say: 'Oh, how pooty!'

" "A lie is truth to those who only tell the truth.

Raleigh's most notable verses, The Lie, are a challenge to the world, inspired by indignant pride and the weariness of lifethe saeva indignatio of Swift.

The last and supreme lie in Bethmann-Hollweg's speech is the most insidious of all.

Consequently a lie is in its very nature the product of injustice, malevolence and villainy.

I have already made myself responsible for the statement: "Lying has always been the foundation stone of German policy."

Lies are great travellers, and welcome visitors in a good many homes, and no questions asked.

This must have been Kant's feeling when he said: 'A lie is the abandonment, or, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity of man.'" Dr. Martineau is not so rigid a moralist but that he is ready to agree with those easy-going theologians who find a place for exceptional falsehoods in their reasoning; yet he is so true a man in his moral instincts that his nature recoils from the results of such reasoning.

A lie is a statement that something is, which is not.

Since lying is sinful because a lie is always a lie unto God, the fact that a lie is spoken to an insane person or to a would-be criminal does not make it any the less a sin in God's sight.

It is claimed that lying proffers such unmistakable advantages in time of war, and of sickness, and in dealings with would-be criminals and the insane, and other classes exempt from ordinary social consideration, that lying becomes a necessity when the gain from it is of sufficient magnitude.

A lie is the opposite of truth, and a being who will lie stands opposed to God, who by his very nature cannot lie.

" In Dr. Thornwell's view, it is not, as Dr. Paley would have it, that "a lie is a breach of promise," because as between man and man "the truth is expected," according to a tacit understanding.

The maxim that "a lie is a shield in sore need, but the spear of a scoundrel," affirms the right in extremity to preserve a secret from impertinent inquisitiveness.

The red stone blocks lie, strata on strata, forming fortifications with embrasures, projecting wings and round towers; but shaken, split and fallen in ruinsit is an architectural fantastic freak of nature.

" A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and an ever present help in time of trouble.

No: the silent lie was comparatively easy! AUNTIE.

But with all that has been written on this subject in the passing centuries, the advocates of the "lie of necessity" have had to contend with the moral sense of the world as to the sinfulness of lying, and with the fact that lying is not merely a violation of a social duty, but is contrary to the demands of the very nature of God, and of the nature of man as formed in the image of God.

The snow-wreath lies, And all is bleak Then say, sweet flower, Whence cam'st thou here In such an hour?

"Lie, cheat, steal, and honor your parents," were the elementary principles which Kei-ying inculcated.

43 Metaphors for  lie