Lying Quotes

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.

I think every job you have to lie to get. You always say how wonderful it all is, that it's an amazing script - "I love you, you're such a great director." I think every actor does that.

You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.

Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.

I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies.

Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

The expression working like a dog dates back to a time in America when men would rise early, then lie around all day and lick their balls.

Hence the solution lies in finding a means of so readjusting this exclusive element to the family of nations, that the basis of the Jewish question will be permanently removed.

Art is lies that tell the truth.

Clean plates don't lie.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.

The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.

Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

The mirror can lie. Doesn't show you what's inside. And it, it can tell you you're full of life. It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile.