Lying Quotes

Words lie. Blood doesn't.

I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.

The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.

These two points are lies. UN Resolution 2758 does not say a word about the relationship between Taiwan and China, let alone say that the PRC represents Taiwan

Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?

The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as a warrior, that's just his thing.

A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to the people to touch their souls in this selfish world full of lies.

The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies.

...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

My success lies in having achieved a record numbers of failures.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. . . .

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

I never regret anything... I just lie about it or change the story.

You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self.

...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.

The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the bowman's mind.

In the end a lie is a lie.

Lying - remembering beauty in truth.

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond.

If you're going to lie, at least be good at it.