Lying Quotes

Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? ... Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

My moral standing is lying down.

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.

If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders.

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

A liar should have a good memory.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

My only hope lies in my despair.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two

Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.

The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.

As your training progresses, always remember that the key to gaining the ability for spontaneous and creative technique lies in good ukemi.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.

He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.