Lying Quotes

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.

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

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

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

It sounds very pretentious, but I don't lie. It's too uncomfortable. A lot of people think because you're an actor that makes you a good liar, but one of the things I can't articulate is a bad lie.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.

Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

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 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.

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

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

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.

The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I'm always looking for the comfiest place to lie down, like a cat.

But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.

Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.

If the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.