Lying Quotes
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Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Children and fools always speak the truth.
— Mark Twain
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
— Marcel Proust
For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.
— Elizabeth Inchbald
He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.
— Alice Cooper
There is so much guilt lying around here, just waiting for me to pick it up and carry it with me. There is so much I can torture myself about.
— Taylor Jenkins Reid
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.
— D.H. Lawrence
Does she, like most women, lose a part of her soul in sex? Leave it lying there for the taking? Fuck.
— Karen Marie Moning
Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.
— R. K. Milholland
Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
— Gertrude Atherton
I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.
— Anne Lamott
No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.
— Dudley North
I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.
— Evelyn Waugh
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
— William James
Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
— Louis Gustave Vapereau
She had forgotten, and the world was lying askew around
— Jerry Pinto
I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
— Gary Oldman
Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.
— Deepak Chopra
Do well the duty that lies before you.
— Pittacus Of Mytilene
He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.
— William Shakespeare
The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing.
— David Weigel
Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.
— Martha Beck
The greatest betrayal is betraying yourself.
— Ama H. Vanniarachchy
It's better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar
— Christopher Paolini
What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
— John Milton
It's acting, not lying, so I will not be sent to hell for saying these sorts of things.
— Janette Rallison
No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
— Sara Shepard
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.
— Joan D. Chittister
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
— B.C. Forbes
Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.
— L. Ron Hubbard
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
— Jonathan Swift
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
— Henry Ward Beecher
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
— Amy Tan
In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought.
— Louis Kronenberger
Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people.
— Terry Pratchett
Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.
— Benito Mussolini
If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.
— Terry Eagleton
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!
— Omar Khayyam
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
— Sam Harris
You're staring at my ass."
"Yes, I am." It's what he did in the mornings, when she woke up and spent the first hour lying around in bed. — Tara Janzen
"Yes, I am." It's what he did in the mornings, when she woke up and spent the first hour lying around in bed. — Tara Janzen
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
— Theodore Roosevelt
In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.
— Louis D. Brandeis
This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.
— R.C. Sproul
Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain.
Popular people, well, they're just the best liars. — Rick Remender
Popular people, well, they're just the best liars. — Rick Remender
Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?
— Richard Pryor
Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.
— Peter Sellers
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
— George Bernard Shaw
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
— Andy Goldsworthy
It seems too easy to lie in the moment but you always have to tell more lies on top of it to cover your tracks.
— Candace Cameron
Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
— P.D. Ouspensky
Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin
We could plan a murder
Or start a religion. — Jim Morrison
We could plan a murder
Or start a religion. — Jim Morrison
The more often a person tell a lie-the more time u hear lie,u begin to believe it-if it's told often enough,u start begin to believe it
— Michael J. Jackson
They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.
— Cool Papa Bell
Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.
— Jaleigh Johnson
If you tell a lie, tell a big one.
— Joseph Goebbels
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
— Laurence J. Peter
If you don't say what you're thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
— Banana Yoshimoto
Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
— Luc De Clapiers
Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom.
— Gary Zukav
Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
— Erwin McManus
As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, Look, he's still moving!
— Peter Costello
God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.
— Meister Eckhart
The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.
— Michael Ventura
Dandelions don't tell no lies ...
— Mick Jagger
Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other.
— Kenneth Stafford Norris
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
— Charles Baudelaire
Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation ... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.
— Anais Nin
But magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass. Winter
— Terry Pratchett
In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.
— Robert Kennedy
Security lies in our ability to produce.
— Douglas MacArthur
The more you believe, the more you'll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway.
— Will Advise
It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.
— Stephen Samuel Wise