Lying Quotes

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

I've learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.

...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.

Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

If anyone accuses me of lying, I'll simply say I'm not lying, which is just an extension of the overall lying strategy.

The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency.

Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose.

Man is bound to lie about himself

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.

Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.