Lying Quotes

Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.

Rule 1: The Doctor lies.

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

Love is only one fine star away, even though the living is sometimes laced with lies.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

Where you can never sleep because of noisy brain.No matter how tired you are. It's impossible to accomplish anything but lying here in bed. Frustrated and victimized at three in the morning.

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.

Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.

Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.

This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me ... and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.

Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.

There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.

I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.

There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing.

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here, 'Cause I remember it all, all, all... too well...

So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn.

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl.

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.

If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

It's time to lie down and be counted.

I'd rather lie down than jump up.

Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.

Quite simply, it is true that I can be a pig! It is not a lie to say that. Sometimes, I feel that I am in the right even when I am wrong.

Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art

Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

Lies exist only to be extinguished.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.