Lying Quotes · Page 165

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

— Tamora Pierce

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

— Tom Hanks

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

— Norman Spinrad

Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.

— Jimmy Buffett

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.

— Edward de Bono

True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.

— Og Mandino

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

— Juvenal

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Love me for what I am Not what I try to be. Love me for what I am. I am A person…

— William Finn

We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it…

— Jonathan Haidt

The tagline behind "House of Lies" is funny, dirty, business. The show is a comedy satire about how big business operates. Most…

— Larenz Tate

I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it…

— Sylvia Plath

We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian…

— Shashi Tharoor

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

— Jan Brewer

I spent as much time watching telly and films when I was a kid as I did lying around reading books. I…

— Nick Hornby

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from…

— B. F. Skinner

There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The…

— Lucretia Mott

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and…

— Sarah McLachlan

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one…

— Greta Van Susteren

I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat…

— Jenny Valentine

I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent,…

— Jane Hirshfield

“You’re lying,” he said-not angry, not accusing. Just as if he was stating the facts, in a way that she wasn’t. “I…

— Jodi Picoult

Br Orson Pratt is in trubble in consequence of his wife, hir feelings are so rought up that he dos not know…

— Jedediah M. Grant

Schulz told lies in German, and it's unfortunate someone can speak German in this house, but it is our responsibility to stand…

— Uri Orbach

Do I preach to you while you're lying stoned in the gutter? No.

— Bender (The Cartoon Character

“Anyone who says it’s easy to self-publish a book is either lying or doing a shitty job.”

— Nan McCarthy

The true greatness of a nation lies in its character, not in its economic or military power.

— Daniel L Dreisbach

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

— Kim Edwards

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

— Anne Rice

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

— Edward Snowden

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

— Kelley Armstrong

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

— Anonymous

“We didn’t make sense anymore. And there’s no point lying, like you said, even on your last day.”

— Adam Silvera

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you…

— Anita Shreve

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

— Julian Barnes

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

— Eugene Ionesco

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

— Isaac Watts

No matter how hard you try to hide the truth. It eventually find its way out.

— Anonymous

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.

— Pirjo Honkasalo

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

— Randy Pausch