To lie is to deliver a false statement to another person which the speaking person knows is not the whole truth, intentionally.
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Famous quotes containing the word lie:
“Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
“Be mine the tomb that swallowed up Pharaoh and all his hosts; let me lie down with Drake, where he sleeps in the sea.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Truth does not consist in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)