Lying Quotes

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.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

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.

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

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.

Dames lie about anything - just for practice.

People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.

Will we listen to Satan, the author of all lies … ? Or are we going to believe a loving Heavenly Father, who is the source of all truth and happiness?

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.

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

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.

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

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.

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

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse.

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.

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

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

All of our heartfelt lies Are not enough this time

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.

I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.

Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.

I could lie and pretend that I hunt and camp, but that wouldn't be me. Clothes? Shopping? That's stuff I like!

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.

The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

Real happiness lies within you.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

My hips don't lie and I don't lie either!

I believe that the true value of life lies in work, diligence and innovation. After all, work is the essence of humanity.

Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be demanded.