Lying Quotes

It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

As many have observed, it is easy to tell a lie, but it is almost impossible to tell only one.

I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie [42]. I wouldn't lie to you.

And if our future Lies on the final line Are we brave enough To see the signals and the signs?

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

It rolls in grandeur lone-- The stream of Time; And on its shores lie strown The wrecks of every clime.

Hope lies in what the book title says, finding love and community.

Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.

My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue.

Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

Your success & happiness lies in you.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen, to bear fruit of a divine flavor.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.