Lying Quotes

What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job!

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves

It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.

And if that isnt the truth, it would be a lie.

Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.

Sometimes you have to lie to tell the truth.

Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.

I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise

Never seem to have a Death Star lying around when you need one.” -Han Solo

If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.

A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God lies waiting to grant you a deep experience of your eternal oneness with God.

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want.

What wonders lie in every mountain day!

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

A man has to choose. This is where lies his strength: in the power of his decisions. If you choose to follow the path of your dreams, commit yourself to it. Accept your path.

If honesty was like water that people couldn't live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather!

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique

I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.