Lying Quotes

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.

The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

I've been through hell. It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me.

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.

Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.

'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly.

The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago.

The Lord won't confirm a lie.

Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.

People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.

The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at once so much and yet understand so little.

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish.

The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.

...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.

Herein, lies the key to love. Love builds bridges. Soul exists because God loves It. Soul equals Soul; no one Soul is greater than another. Experience the greatest love of all.

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.

In great memories there lies the seed of growth.