Lying Quotes

I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

Nothing shows lack of conscience better than bold-faced lying.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in - Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

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.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

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

Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you.

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.

Don't lie, then you can look the whole world in the eye.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

Loyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it.

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr. C, who used to be Mr. B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

I'd be lying to you if I said guys weren't afraid of him. I'm afraid of him, afraid of him running in to me.