Lying Quotes

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive.'

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.

The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.

French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf. Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene? Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies.

I live for freedom, and freedom is a lie.

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.

Oh, it's nice to get up in the mornin', But it's nicer to lie in bed.

Know when to lie to your kids.

Poets tell many lies.

The biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself.

I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.

What lies north of the North Pole?

scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.

It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.

I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers of the past gradually fall away and you are soon set free

In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.