Lying Quotes

I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Man is bound to lie about himself

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.

Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.

The human being has enormous resources in the power to heal. And in those resources lie things that we ourselves need to clear or feel.

The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.

Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?

I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string - the pearls lie scattered on the ground.

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.