Lying Quotes

Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

A thief believes everybody steals.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

True liars never love. True lovers never lie.

If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.

Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.

Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.

It doesn't matter in the end who wins and loses cause we're just here havin fun. And I'm totally lying. It always matters who wins.

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.