Lying Quotes

All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

The professional permanent staff that lies right beneath them will still be in place, making everything work until the [Donald] Trump appointees start populating the offices on top of them.

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.

I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.

Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

Sometimes the truth is not as believable as a well-crafted lie.

I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating.

Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.

And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

I never lie for the sake of kindness,” he murmured, smiling. “One of my many flaws.

Some things are better when it’s raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this.” “Lying in bed with me?

Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.

Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.

That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget.

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.