Lying Quotes

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate.

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.

Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep.

If you don't have to lie, you don't have to remember anything. You can just go. That's really where I'm at. It's just making it up as I go along.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

Iraq has slipped enough toward dangerous paths that may endanger the country if we don't realize that the solution ... lies is the concept of national unity

To overvalue something is a form of lying.

Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.

In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!

You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.

Republicans have pounced. They're outraged. They say, 'How dare you lie about caring for the people who got hurt in the war we lied them into?'

All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

You learn who your friends are when you find out who will lie for you.

Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

Even a lie is a psychic fact.

You can always tell when someone's lying to you, because they're male.

There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Every time I open my Bible I will read it as the Word of 'God, that cannot lie;' and when I get a promise or a threatening, I will either rejoice or tremble because I know that these stand fast.

The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

I love feeling in touch with Mother Nature. Spending time outside - whether it's hiking, biking, walking on the beach, or lying in the sun - brings me clarity and energy.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

The thought, 'I can't' is a lie. We use it to excuse ourselves from trying.

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.

Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe

I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.

Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?

I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing...

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.