Lying Quotes

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

So truth created the ultimate lie. Was this what the world was like for wizards? This thorny, gray tangle where right and wrong were so mixed there was no telling them apart?

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

Look, [Hillary Clinton] is been proven to be a liar on so many different ways. This is just another lie.

You know, Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. And I could tell how much it bothered him and annoyed him that this [birther lie] was being touted and used against him.

What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

I don't lie," I lied.

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me. -Captain Tagon

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called "swift-boating."

They mislead the unwitting masses.

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.

Demographics don't lie, economies don't lie. When the median age of your population is twenty-four-years-old and a quarter of the working population's unemployed - this is not a recipe for success.

Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.

It's February the 22ndAnd I can't tell a lie.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

many people talk about love, to seek excuses, no one is forced to lie

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.

If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey.

If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths