Lying Quotes

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

I am wearing a size 28 Paige Jeans. Jeans don't lie, and I am just happy!

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

I'm not really sure of anything. I have no personality or opinion on anything. I just sort of float around and lie to my dog.

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen, nor strayeth far from his bed; The short days pass unwelcomed one by one.

Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.

The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.

I still wonder if the United States realizes how much planning went into this. When we talk about "mindless terrorists," we are lying to ourselves.

At Baalbek Nuts I bought pistachios from the Lebanese owners, who answered my request for their thoughts on the war with the typically Lebanese response of no problem. It's a lie, as we all knew.

Beneath the excuse lies your destiny.

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.

Between the subject and the object lies the value.

At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.

The feminine aspect has been crushed for millennia in most cultures. I believe the future lies in a balance of the male/female duality

The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.

Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart.

The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive, but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.

Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless.

Cars and women are a lot alike. They lie about the milage.

The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.

The more we enter our own gifts, the more we feel that sense of proportion. In that sense, I think our life lies in the fulfillment of those potentialities, whatever they may be.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

The rumors are lies. There were a lot of people said we're not going to play that we don't have a contract. ... We got it worked out got it hammered out.

Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.

America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet.

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.

The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.