Lying Quotes

No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

You said you wanted to remember something.' His palms slid up to the top of her thighs and squeezed. 'So lie back and let me do my thing.' -Issac Rothe, Crave

G'on now.' he murmured with that Southern drawl. 'Lie on back and let me take care of you. I promise to go slow...real slow.' - Issac Rothe, Crave

I have a friend who is an excellent liar. His secret: Believe the lie yourself when you're telling it.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.

I have no problem with my age. I've been acting for 50 years in Australia and everyone knows my age because I started at 15. So there was never any point in lying about it.

One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.

Therein lies the rub of a place like Berkeley Bowl. You get seduced by an 11-pound apple that turns out to be a fake watermelon with an anus.

At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.

The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.

Gashed with honourable scars,Low in Glory's lap they lie;Though they fell, they fell like stars,Streaming splendour through the sky.

You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things—don’t leave your socks lying around—but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.

The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.

I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people.

Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.

You fainted," I told Tank. "I did not," Tank said. "That's a lie.

These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain

I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

Because our lies matched. It was a sign.

John Kerry described his Republican critics as 'the most crooked, lying group I've ever seen.' Now, that's saying something, because Kerry's both a lawyer and a politician.

Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.