Lying Quotes

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

It's so easy to lie. What’s even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we don’t have to face the truth, don’t have to feel alone.

Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.

Every War in the past 50 Years is a Result of Media Lies

In every failure lies the seeds of success.

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose!

The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

Beauty lies mainly, above all, in personality, not in the skin.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"

I was a good liar as a child.

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!

People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.