Lying Quotes

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying.

A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.

Your strength lies in your Hope. Your salvation lies in your Faith.

I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

Only the liar knows he's lying

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

And know if I'll only be true to the glorious quest That my heart lies peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest.

They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That’s my motto.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.

He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

It's better to give ideas away and contribute to another person's success than to have them lying dormant.

If you're lying, you're lying.

When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.

These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?

So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving.

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.

Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.