Lying Quotes · Page 108

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn.

— Ted Hughes

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

— Meridel Le Sueur

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

— Isobelle Carmody

The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

— Eugene O'Neill

The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.

— St. Catherine of Siena

A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.

— Robin Sharma

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

— Maya Angelou

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“And i wish I didn't have to lie so much. I don't think Frank Socrates would approve of all this lying. I…

— A.S. King

The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that…

— Mark Twain

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes…

— Patricia Hewitt

I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing...

— David Weigel

I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.

— RuPaul

I believe that the true value of life lies in work, diligence and innovation. After all, work is the essence of humanity.

— Sheikh Abdullah

I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and…

— Robert Penn Warren

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges'…

— Walter Karp

To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants…

— Anton Chekhov

Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in…

— Vasily Grossman

The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older…

— Walker Percy

I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors…

— Ross McKitrick

Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the…

— Jim Butcher

Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even…

— Charles Spurgeon

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

— Vera Nazarian

“I get the feeling that it's all a big lie. The problem is I don't know who's lying.”

— Stephen Chbosky

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

— Dennis Lehane

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

— Lauren Groff

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

— Jack London

The Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

— Samuel

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

— Busy Philipps

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.

— Anonymous

It is only when you encounter the truth that you realize what has been a lie.

— Anonymous

Jesus Christ, why dont you come save my life. Open my eyes and blind me with your light and your lies.

— Maynard James Keenan

Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.

— Meyer Lansky

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism

— Alex Salmond

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

— George Sand

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.

— Peter Høeg

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

— Brittany Murphy