Lying Quotes · Page 145

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

— Karl Barth

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

— Austin O'Malley

We need to resolve issues lying between Japan and South Korea.

— Fumio Kishida

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

— Joseph Goebbels

I'd be lying if I didn't say I pretended to be Carrie Bradshaw while I wrote from my apartment.

— Andi Dorfman

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

— Thomas Jefferson

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

— Randi Rhodes

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

— Rupert Everett

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn…

— David Copperfield

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it -…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in…

— Dick Gregory

With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the…

— James Bovard

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

— David K. Shipler

You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it…

— Steve Harvey

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the…

— James Joyce

How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled…

— Margaret Mitchell

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory…

— Rene Descartes

We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That…

— Os Guinness

“The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain…

— Lydia Davis

“I used to be amazed at her self-deception, but now I see I am exactly the same. I used to think people…

— Dizz Tate

I'm sure you know a lot of people who were born into privilege and amounted to absolutely nothing. We all have greatness…

— Farrah Gray

The difference does not lie in the things that news does that novels do not do, but in the things that novels…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These…

— Dean Koontz

There is no other way to put it: When Mr. Obama, Secretary of then-State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then-U.N. Ambassador Susan E.…

— Tom Fitton

Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.

— William Shakespeare

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

— Gunter Grass

. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

— Glen Cook

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

— Henrik Ibsen

When you're an addict you end up lying and the lies find you out.

— Richard Bacon

Debts and lies are generally mixed together. [Fr., Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble rallies.]

— Francois Rabelais

I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.

— Michel de Montaigne

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

— Abraham Lincoln

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.

— Marieta Maglas

“Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying.”

— Thomas Jefferson

It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

— Robert James Waller

Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

— M. C. Escher

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one…

— Judith McNaught

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

— Epictetus

You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep.

— John T. Scopes