Lying Quotes

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

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.

For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

I've been an audience member for friends in plays that I don't enjoy and I have to lie to their faces. It's just part of that lifestyle unfortunately, especially in New York.

Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse.

Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

O vanity, mislead no more!

Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

Art lies by its own artifice.

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

History is the lies of the victors.

I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.

Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.

I will never lie to you.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

Lie to yourself until it's true.

O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.