Lying Quotes

Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.

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

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

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.

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

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

I know my lies are always wishes.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.

My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again!

The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.

The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.