lie (n.)
- aim
- aspect
- attitude
- azimuth
- bearing
- bent
- bouncer
- canard
- carry
- cheat
- course
- cover
- crawl
- current
- deceitfulness
- direction
- dishonesty
- distortion
- drift
- exaggeration
- exist
- exposure
- fable
- falsehood
- falsification
- falsity
- farrago
- fib
- fiction
- fix
- flam
- flimflam
- forgery
- fraudulence
- frontage
- go
- half-truth
- heading
- hold
- inaccuracy
- inclination
- lay
- libel
- line
- lounge
- mendacity
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- myth
- navigation
- orientation
- perjury
- pilotage
- piloting
- point
- position
- prevarication
- quarter
- range
- reach
- repose
- reside
- rest
- ride
- run
- set
- shift
- span
- sprawl
- spread
- stand
- steerage
- steering
- story
- straddle
- stretch
- surround
- sweep
- tale
- taradiddle
- tendency
- tenor
- track
- trend
- untruth
- way
- yarn
lie (v.)
- aim
- beguile
- carry
- cheat
- course
- cover
- crawl
- deceive
- delude
- distort
- drift
- encompass
- environ
- equivocate
- evade
- exaggerate
- exist
- extend
- falsify
- fib
- fix
- flam
- go
- grovel
- hold
- indwell
- inhere
- lay
- libel
- line
- loll
- lounge
- misguide
- misinform
- mislead
- misstate
- occur
- palter
- point
- position
- prevaricate
- quarter
- range
- reach
- recline
- remain
- repose
- reside
- rest
- ride
- run
- set
- shift
- span
- sprawl
- spread
- stand
- straddle
- stretch
- surround
- sweep
- tale
- track
- trend
- way
- yarn
Children and fooles cannot lye.
The Retort Courteous; . . . the Quip Modest; . . . the Reply Churlish; . . . the Reproof Valiant; . . . the Countercheck Quarrelsome; . . . the Lie with Circumstance; . . . the Lie Direct.
Go, Soul, the body's guest,
Upon a thankless arrant:
Fear not to touch the best,
The truth shall be thy warrant:
Go, since I needs must die,
And give the world the lie.
Upon my burned body lie lightly, gentle earth.
You lie—under a mistake,
For this is the most civil sort of lie
That can be given to a man's face. I now
Say what I think.
Which makes life itself a lie,
Flattering dust with eternity.
A lie never lives to be old.
Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance."
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
I have peppered two of them: two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face; call me horse. Thou knowest my old ward: here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber!
Holy angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head.
Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.
Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie.
I mean you lie—under a mistake.
You lie—under a mistake,
For this is the most civil sort of lie
That can be given to a man's face. I now
Say what I think.
The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly;
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A truth and noonday light to thee.
And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but
The truth in masquerade.
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies;
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright;
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies;
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright;
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
The Retort Courteous; . . . the Quip Modest; . . . the Reply Churlish; . . . the Reproof Valiant; . . . the Countercheck Quarrelsome; . . . the Lie with Circumstance; . . . the Lie Direct.
Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me.
