Lying Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

O vanity, mislead no more!

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.

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

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

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

I know my lies are always wishes.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]

When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain.

My religion lies in my composition.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

Candor is the only way I know how to do it. I'm way too old to change. At the end of the day, I believe the truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.

A critical key to achieving success lies in your ability to activate your potential to create the results you seek... start by being aware of your self-sabotaging patterns.

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

Dames lie about anything - just for practice.

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.