Lying Quotes

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.

Behind any Strength lies a greater Love.

You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.

I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

Behind every success, there lies a magical word: Dare!

Like a garbage truck, we need a 'lie-truck' which will collect lies from everyone's houses every morning, even every hour!

-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

Peppercorn is black and so is the beauty mark of the moon-faces -both rend the heart, yet between them lie enormous spaces

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

Infrastructure should not only be about Highways but also about Information Highways! The way ahead lies in creating optical fibre networks.

In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

It’s not lying, it’s flirting.

But no matter what was going on in our lives, I could imagine lying beside her in bed at the end of the day, holding her while we talked and laughed, lost in each other's arms

My grandfather always told me that it is no good lying on a hospital bed saying, 'I had the right of way', ... That's one of the reasons I was so pleased that the boys could do the IAM test as well.

All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.

The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa.

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.

I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.

Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.

I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.

Chiron probably wanted me to say, Heck it wa nothing. I eat hellhounds for breakfast. But I didn't feel like lying.

I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.