Lying Quotes

Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.

You don't fear me," he said now. She wasn't stupid enough to lie. "I'm petrified. But I figure you didn't make me come all this way just so you could push me off the roof.

Raphael, tell him you won’t do anything to him if I get ‘damaged.’ ” “That would be a lie, Elena. I would tear out his throat.

Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.

I think all politicians lie.

The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.

Surveys show that surveys never lie.

I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.

The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.

Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy?

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth

Hillary Clinton is lying again and again.

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

I would be lying if I said I don't like to look sexy. But then there are some days when I don't want to look or feel sexy.

Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.

Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

I love that ["Big Little Lies"] is about women coming together and making something happen very quickly, with friendship being the core of it.

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.

Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

I'll pick "I'm kidding" anytime over "I'm lying."

If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.

I just have an inability to lie.