Lying Quotes · Page 117

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

— Lana Del Rey

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Life is just a lie with an 'F' in it, and death is definite

— Sage Francis

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

— Jon Voight

Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God's hands, and know no will but His.

— Charles Spurgeon

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

— Martin Luther

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

— Riley Keough

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

— Madison Cawein

Forget about me aand ill forget about you because obviously I was the only one who was 100% true. So fuck you…

— Nikki King

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

— Storm Jameson

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take…

— Amy Tan

The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.

— Ana Navarro

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

— Elizabeth Smart

“They'll use guns and they'll use words, and the worst part of all is that you might listen when they say you're…

— RoAnna Sylver

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes…

— Sue Grafton

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing…

— John Steinbeck

At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world.…

— Patricia A. McKillip

Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their…

— Steven Strogatz

Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these…

— Bent Larsen

And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But…

— Melina Marchetta

He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around…

— Elmer Kelton

“What do you do for Nigel Jennings?" There was no pause at all. "I'm his tailer," he answered immediately. "You're nothing of…

— Johanna Lindsey

In the penitentiary you learn this: don't lie. Don't lie, man. If someone catches you in a lie you leave yourself open…

— Charles Manson

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

— Jasper Fforde

Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion.

— Daisaku Ikeda

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

— Beth Moore

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

— Oscar Wilde

Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

— Galileo Galilei

Donald Trump lies with astonishing frequency and in stunning volume.

— David Remnick

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

— Gore Verbinski

Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it.

— Donald A. Norman

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

— Diego Luna

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

— Winston Churchill

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of…

— Michel de Montaigne

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

— Hilary Mantel

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

— William Faulkner