Lying Quotes

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.

People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.

He'd just have to lie there and die, watched over by strange stars who didn't know him, didn't care for him. It was very sad, really.

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

Don't stand if you can sit, don't sit if you can lie down.

You know, its just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.

Whatever the reason, lying is a bad thing.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Will we listen to Satan, the author of all lies … ? Or are we going to believe a loving Heavenly Father, who is the source of all truth and happiness?

Nothing's forever forever's a lie. All we have is what's between hello and goodbye.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.

I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.

Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down!

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.