Lying Quotes

THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.

I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.

Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.

The lie is elaborate and exact.

The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.

The task that lies before me is daunting and the rewards are uncertain. I should probably let someone else do it.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.

Congratulations on your well deserved retirement, Wishing you every happiness in the years ahead. No lying about your age, more lying around the house After lying much longer in bed

Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?

To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

The different part of writing and singing worship lies in the identity and truth of God's Word and true intention for us as His followers on this Earth.

It's weird but it's amazing, and it's great to know people are thinking about you. It's a huge ego boost and anyone that says they don't love that is lying.

We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad person. I don't care. I don't care what you are.

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die.

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.

Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.