Lying Quotes

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

Injustice drives me crazy! It really upsets me when I see politicians lying.

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

The lie is different at every level.

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Your excuses are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

One of those lies is that all we need to do is elect more Democrats. No. That actually isn't going to get us to the Promised Land.

Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks... lying that I knew how to drive a truck... and doing commercials and documentaries.

Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.

Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.

The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.

The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor.

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.