Lying Quotes · Page 110

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

— Robert Wilson Lynd

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.

— Luc de Clapiers

I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.

— George Washington

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the…

— William Carlos Williams

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

— Rick Yancey

Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

— Graeme Base

Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies.

— Ellen Hopkins

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

— Holly Black

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million…

— Criss Jami

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose…

— Henry Ward Beecher

'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly.

— Emily Dickinson

Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can…

— Joan Jett

Excuse me. Everyone, I have a brief announcement to make. Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and the government is…

— Huey Freeman

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to…because it allows us to…

— Douglas Kennedy

I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in…

— John Searles

The best worst example of making people feel unappreciated today lies in the casualness, indeed indifference with regard to massive lay-offs even…

— Judith M Bardwick

...Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy...The answer to these challenges lies in the…

— Connie Hedegaard

Raise your hand if you’ve spent nights crying yourself to sleep, raise your hand if you’ve felt as if you’d rather hide…

— Dianna Agron

No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the…

— Peter Medawar

Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its…

— Lady Hester Stanhope

To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning…

— Richard Hofstadter

In the offseason, why can't it be a little lighter? It's not life or death. I try to have a little fun,…

— Steve Spurrier

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

— Huston Smith

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

— Heinrich Heine

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

— Saint Augustine

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

— Josh Billings

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

— Laurence Olivier

I don't trip bout being lied to, Hell 9/10 I'm lying to you my damn self! Can't get mad if I'm doing…

— Anonymous

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

— Plutarch

I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.

— Anne Sexton

Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

— George W. Buck

Your strength lies in your Hope. Your salvation lies in your Faith.

— Joan Walsh Anglund

Your excuses are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.

— Robin Sharma

Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose!

— Alfred Noyes

Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

— P. J. O'Rourke

If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt to tell you the truth.

— Marshall Sylver

Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.

— Nalini Singh

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.

— Rumi