Lying Quotes

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!

The girls show up wearing nothing. I can't lie, I'm 16, I don't hate it. I don't have a girlfriend.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

He's a nice young lad. I'll keep putting him on ... as long as he doesn't tell me any lies. He's back focused and it's great to see. Let's hope he keeps going on from that.

People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach.

You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

The key to real and lasting change lies somewhere between what you know and what you do. It's what you think.

I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for.

Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.

Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.

In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred to protect a lie.

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

Keep your lies short and simple.

The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

Never lie in writing.

Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.