Lying Quotes · Page 125

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

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

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

Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must…

— Anonymous

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if…

— Bob Dylan

Hence the solution lies in finding a means of so readjusting this exclusive element to the family of nations, that the basis…

— Leon Pinsker

Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.

— Rick Lenz

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together…

— Haruki Murakami

“I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you…

— Lauren Oliver

Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope…

— Margaret Weis

Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly…

— Albrecht Durer

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of…

— Julianne Moore

Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes…

— Renata Adler

I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of…

— Paul Simon

The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to…

— Simone Weil

If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents…

— Mary McCarthy

The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on…

— John Irving

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

— Saint Augustine

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

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

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

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