Lying Quotes
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.
The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty
It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.
The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.
At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.
There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.
…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives.
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.
A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.
