Lying Quotes · Page 154

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

— John Milton

If lying was a job, I know someone who would be a billionaire!

— Nishan Panwar

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

— Orson Scott Card

Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die

— Nikolai Gogol

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

— Joel Osteen

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

— Anonymous

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

— Winston Churchill

I've learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and…

— Ali MacGraw

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face…

— Richard Wright

“She lied to me today," Archie said. "A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.”

— Chelsea Cain

The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you…

— Erin Hunter

You lied, I cried. You flirt, I hurt. You forgot, I remembered. You promised, I believed you. You were done, I was…

— Anonymous

I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me." "It does? Oh…

— Cassandra Clare

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted…

— Shania Twain

How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before…

— Anonymous

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle...…

— Thomas Jefferson

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally…

— Howard Gardner

How can we recognize if we're falling into materialism's trap? Christ's words were direct and profound: "Where your treasure is, there your…

— Randy Alcorn

There are so many sci-fi fans and it's such a big business now. So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.…

— Aaron Ashmore

“By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Honesty doesn't require that she issue…

— Sam Harris

For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was…

— Maurice Sendak

Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in…

— Pamela Meyer

I can't even go to Rolling Loud and perform without the police and the news lying on me, trying to lock me…

— Tee Grizzley

“You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.”

— Dean Koontz

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the…

— Ray Manzarek

Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.

— Hugh Latimer

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom…

— Djuna Barnes

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

— Richelle Mead

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

— F. Thomson Leighton

Education will equip you to do something worthwhile in the great world of opportunity that lies ahead.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

When everbody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Anybody who says that favoritism doesn't exist in Bollywood would be lying.

— Huma Qureshi

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

— Pierre Corneille

I'm a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, 'cause I remember it all too well

— Taylor Swift

Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

— Helen Keller

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

— Peter Matthiessen

Laying here thinking how perfect life would be if you were lying next to me.

— Anonymous

Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.

— Suzanne Collins