Lying Quotes

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see."

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie

The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.

You lie long enough and you start to get used to it.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.

The whole journey of life is a journey of preparation... to see, to feel, to understand the beauty of what lies ahead, of the homeland towards which we walk.

An angry lover tells himself many lies.

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.

I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.

The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought.

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.

Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It's a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it's hard to know what's going on unless you really follow it.

It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.

I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.

This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.

Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.

Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move

Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.

Art lies in concealing art.

The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.

Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.

All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.