Lying Quotes

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

Plain lies are dangerous.

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.

Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.

She think I'm the realest out and I say 'damn that makes 2 of us'.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

I mean you last as long as lies.

Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.

Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

The danger lies in forgetting.

Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.

The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.

We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

not keeping a promise is the same as lying!

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

After the journey around the world, writing Hope's Edge, I began to see that it is not possible to know what's possible - and therein lies our freedom.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that.

The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do.

If I was going to lie to you, I'd already be elected.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

...and when you’ve known me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

I am a big fan of[Barak] Obama.I'd like to lie on the ground and have him walk over me.

I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.