Lying Quotes

I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.

The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.

Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream

Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart.

If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.

It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.

So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.

I got a feeling your statements are true but all they add up to is one big lie.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

Never lie under any circumstances.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.

You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies.

In thy foul throat thou liest.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.

When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

I'm lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing.

Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.