Lying Quotes

As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.

Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again.

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

The Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it.

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.

The meaning lies in the appropriation.

Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person

All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

You can't build a foundation on lies.

Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.

Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.

What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.

A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.

I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

You know what lies are for.

I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.

The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.