Lying Quotes

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

I'm not going to lie. I would definitely steal stuff from set.

When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.

I think a lot of men just automatically like to lie, because they feel like their protecting a women's feelings.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

As long as we decline to allow sick uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.

I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

I have things that are strident and confrontational, and I have a lot of things that are childlike and innocent and sort of sweet. So, somewhere in between lies the middle of me.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.

Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. [Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.]

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

He that makes his bed ill, lies there.

He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.

Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.