Lying Quotes

What do you think you should do if you're attacked by a bear? Play dead? No - that's a lie promoted by the bears.

Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.

Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

My only hope lies in my despair.

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.

Your brand's power lies in dominance. It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.

It happens just because we need to want and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and listen to the warm.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

Abe shook his head, and now the smile was gone altogether. "That's not the reason either. Don't lie to me little girl." I felt my hackles going up. "And don't interrogate me, old man.

It's our contention that equity may be in the money, depending on where the liabilities lie.

Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.

The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.

Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.

You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start.

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.