Lying Quotes

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you.

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

If you believe there is a God, a God that made your body, and yet you think that you can do anything with that body that's dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.

Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?

The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.

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

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.

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

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.

In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait.

There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys - I used to give them bubblegum to chew.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?

Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.

An honest lie is better than a boring truth.