Itcontains a misleading impression, not a lie.It was being economical with the truth.

-Armstrong, Robert, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster
  On a letter, during cross-examination at the'Spycatcher' trial, New South Wales,  Australia, quoted in the Daily Telegraph, 19 Nov.

Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post.

-Beresford, Lord Charles
Telegraph to the Prince of  Wales, declining a dinner invitation. Quoted in Ralph Nevill The World of Fashion1837^1922 (1923), ch.5.

And she caught him by hisgarment, saying, Lie with me: and he left hisgarment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 39:12.

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that heshould repent: hathhesaid, and shall henot do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Numbers 23:19.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of the father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 8:44.

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans1:25.

Lienot oneto another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Colossians 3:9^11.

We are led to believe a Lie When we see with, not thro'the Eye.

-Blake,William
c.1803  Auguries of Innocence, l.125^6

A lie can travel halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. See Spurgeon 811:41.

-Baron
  Speech in the House of Commons, Nov.

   La ve¤  rite¤  , comme la lumie'  re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre¤  puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

-Camus, Albert
  La Chute (translated by Stuart Gilbert).

Nature admits no lie.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Latter-Day Pamphlets, no.5.

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

-Gourmont, Re¤  my de
  Promenades philosophiques (translated by Glen S Burne, 1966).

What's thegood of a lie if it's seen through? When Itell a lie no-one can tell it from the gospel truth. Sometimes I can't even tell it myself.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
   The Captain. The Captain and the Enemy, pt.1, ch.1.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

-Hampton, Christopher
  The Philanthropist.

Soul of my lie, and fame! Eternal lamp of love! whose radiant flame Out-glares the Heav'ns Osiris; and thy gleams Out-shine the splendour of his mid-day beams.

-Herrick, Robert
  'The Welcome to Sack'.

Die breite Masse einesVolkes†einer groÞen Lu«  ge leichter zum Opfer f a« llt als einer kleinen. The broad mass of a nation†will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

-Hitler, Adolf
  Mein Kampf (My Struggle,1939), ch.10.

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

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

The stroke of midnight ceases, And I lie down alone.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  More Poems, no.11.

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.

-Hutchins, Robert M
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Violence is a lie, for it goes against the truth of our faith, the truth of our humanity† Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroysthevery fabric of society.On my knees I beg you to turn away from the paths of violence.

-PopeJohn Paul II originally Karol Jozef Wojtyla
  Speech at Drogheda, Ireland, 29 Sep.