Luke Evans Quotes

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

I was living a life of a lie, I really was.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess.

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.

You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face when I come outside.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

I don't like being lied to.

Everything would have been all right if Hitler hadn't lied to me.