Lying Quotes

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.

True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of lies, a lot of misinformation and some truth.

He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips.

I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it.

They'd rather hate you for the truth than love you for the lies.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

If love is a sin, live a lie. You and Me, until I die.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

When did we fall apart? or did you lie from the start?

I love the Beatles. What more can I say? I'm not gonna lie to you. I love 'em. They make me happy. And I think they were the best, and still are.

People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.

Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

There's no messiahs out here, baby, but I found the holy grail alright. Cause I'm lying in your arms tonight.

You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.