Lying Quotes

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

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.

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

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

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.]

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

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

I will be here and be around, watching over you. You can bet on that. I'll find a way to get some peanuts and take some beer and tell some lies.

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people.

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.

Children and fools cannot lie.

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.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

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

For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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

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

My religion lies in my composition.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.

Energy doesn't lie. Keep sensing it, trusting it, letting it liberate you.

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.

History is the lies of the victors.

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

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.

I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

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

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.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

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.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

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

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.

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

Whatever the reason, lying is a bad thing.