Lying Quotes

I hate when things are sugar-coated. I'd rather have the ugliest truth than the best lie.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

I lie! I cheat! I steal!

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies?

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

Most of our future lies ahead.

It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic.

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

Everything I show you is the truth-And the truth is the loveliest of lies.

If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.

My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

I won't lie, I want to play in the Champions League and challenge for titles.

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

Philanthropy lies at the heart of human greatness.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

The keys to the life of the heart lie in reflecting upon the Quran, being humble before Allah in secret, and leaving sins.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.