Lying Quotes

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

I don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

A thousand approaches lie open to death.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

When I was little, my mom told me that if I lied, the devil would visit me in my sleep. To this day, if I tell even the smallest lie, I have bad dreams. Plus, I'm no good at it.

The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)

Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don’t make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)

Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane) It’s amazing the lies we tell other people, isn’t it? (Sunshine's grandmother)

...It’s not the lies that hurt people. It’s the willingness of everyone else to believe them..." Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon

I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb

Most of all, I like the fact that you share yourself with me. That I don't have to prove my strength to you. I don't have to hurt or be hurt to lie with you." - Vane

In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]

Even if I were lying on the sun itself, I would be freezing there without you. (Zarek)

Don’t ask me any more questions, Keller. I’m just going to lie to you and I’d rather not have the stress of trying to remember what lie I handed you. (Alexion)

Lie to me, I promise to believe. Lie to me, but please don't leave.

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

I like big butts and I cannot lie

Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?

Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.

It just means that your talents lie elsewhere, so take the opportunity to seek out what you are good at, and find a place where you can flourish. Once you do, you’re going to kill it.

There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.

I'm lying. I don't just need someone like you. I need you.

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

False words do not bring forth fruit.

It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle.

The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead.

Lie rather still because this is the first time I've used this equipment.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.

Lie to me. she whispered. I love you. he said.

I don’t like to lie – so there’d better be a good reason why I’m doing it.

The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.