Lying Quotes · Page 109

“Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.”

— George Hammond

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

— William Rees-Mogg

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

My New Year's resolution is to stop lying to myself about making lifestyle changes.

— Anonymous

“You can quote me, but I'll tell everyone that you're lying.”

— Jael Turner

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom; telling the lies will lead you to slavery.

— Jamison Green

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

— Helen Clark

The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

— Gautama Buddha

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't human and tears weren't rolling down my face and I wasn't pissed and I…

— Carli Lloyd

Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a…

— Cindy Sheehan

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the…

— Jane Yolen

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in…

— Rebecca West

You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He…

— Kristin Hannah

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of…

— Tom Waits

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did…

— Anonymous

Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more…

— Benjamin Tucker

I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or…

— Lord Chesterfield

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross…

— Gregory Maguire

When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something…

— Bindu Envy In Women

There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which…

— Margaret Mead

I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it.…

— Kelly Clarkson

Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed…

— Edward Gibbon

His left eyebrow crept higher and higher as I told him the strange bits like the glowing letters and serpent staff. "Well,…

— Rick Riordan

Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.

— Susan Hill

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

— Bear Grylls

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

— Albert Camus

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

— Iris Murdoch

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

— Amelia B. Edwards

The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.

— Lance Morrow

“He’s lying. She’s lying. And before long, they’re lying. Together. In bed...”

— Tawny Weber

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

— Salvador de Madariaga

The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

— Isaac Watts

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

— Scott Westerfeld

They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

— Doug Larson

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

— Knute Nelson

Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.

— Ogden Nash

The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part

— Paul Hirsch

Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.

— Ernest Bramah