Lying Quotes

Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

You lie. Worse, you lie poorly.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

Of course there's objective truth, but when we're looking at people's accounts of it, it seems the real truth lies in the accretion of all these different versions.

Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.

I will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead.

How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.

I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie.

I'd be lying if I said, 'No,' to wanting a lot of kids.

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

Nature lies, disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,- Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart.

Education will equip you to do something worthwhile in the great world of opportunity that lies ahead.

Our hope concerning the future is great, and our faith is strong. We know we’ve scarcely scratched the surface of that which will come to pass in the years that lie ahead.

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.

Groucho: You know I think you're the most beautiful woman in the world? Woman: Really? Groucho: No, but I don't mind lying if it gets me somewhere.

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.

I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

Life is a lie if you do not find the eternal truth.

People don't tend to lie about themselves when they're in imminent danger.