Lying Quotes

It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

"He's lying, Kay," Nash said, fists clenched at his sides. "Hellions can't lie, but we all know reapers can." "Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle."

Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.

Cath wished she didn't use the word "just" so much. It was her passive-aggressive tell, like someone who twitched when they were lying.

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.

There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.

The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.

Lying to the American people wasn’t part of my job description.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.

Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records.

Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to look.

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.

Use minds to solve problems, not lies and bullets.

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

Your truths are worse than your lies.

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

Piper patted his shoulder. “Trust me, Valdez. Beautiful people never lie.