And he would hate her forever for telling him such a terrible lie.

"Whatever the prince says, it is all a terrible lie!"

Perhaps you told a terrible lie that got someone else in very bad trouble or caused a death.

"I've never heard such terrible lies in my whole life."

It was inevitable I'd catch on to the terrible lie.

It is a terrible lie to tell me, that my life's work has been so useless.

"Three hours with the police, living a terrible lie, condemning a man for a crime that was mine alone."

But you know there is a terrible lie in all this.

He did not know if she was capable of such a terrible lie.

Where does a man come up with such a terrible lie?