tell a lie

How can people tell lies in public and continue to live with themselves?

You can tell lies to them and they'll never know.

But you find very few people who don't at some point tell a lie.

In all her life she had never told a lie.

They had to tell a lie for the greater good.

"I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies."

It is too early in the morning to tell lies.

He also knew me well enough to guess when I was telling a lie.

I know when a man is telling me a lie.

Everything he did was to get the job done without telling a lie.