Lying Quotes

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.

I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I'm lying.

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.

But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.

You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

Each must discover his own way in life, and that way lies in his heart. Let him delve deeply into the depths of his being; his true centre is not far from there.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

A false tale often betrays itself.

What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best.

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.