Lying Quotes

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

We wear the mask that grins and lies.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.

If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.

How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.

My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.

Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, This is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, Cause almost everything that I was always ever told was a lie...

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.

Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything.

In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.

A thing's innate disposition does not lie.

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

I am aware of the haters and bad rumors. I'd be lying if I say I don't care, but I try my best not to.

Die breite Masse einesVolkes?einer groÞen Lu« ge leichter zum Opfer f a« llt als einer kleinen. The broad mass of a nation?will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

Are we willing to do for the truth what others are willing to do for a lie?

An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.

It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.