Lying Quotes · Page 166

“Aidi nodded. “Lying to yourself’s always a problem,” he said.”

— K.J. Parker

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

— Lu Xun

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

— Christine Feehan

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

— Eliot Spitzer

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

— Edward Britton

There are two things that you have to lie to get through. One is politics, and the other is marriage.

— Bill Maher

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

— Jonathan Maberry

“My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.”

— Olivia Sudjic

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we…

— Storm Jameson

In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies…

— Glenn Cunningham

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

— Alasdair Gray

For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an…

— Rudolf Steiner

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in…

— Malcolm X

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time…

— Lauren Oliver

We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things--led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate…

— Alyson Noel

I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the…

— Kazimir Malevich

Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in…

— Subhas Chandra Bose

The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an external physical…

— Ian Stewart

You're almost exactly what I need (Almost everything).A definite maybe is sure to entice my curiosity I cant help but think that…

— Marsha Ambrosious

This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the…

— Mira Grant

“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to…

— David Ogilvy

Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.

— Swami Vivekananda

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

— Virginia Woolf

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

— Adolf Hitler

He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

— William Shakespeare

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

— Aleister Crowley

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

— Jonathan Swift

You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

— Barry Hannah

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

— E. M. Forster

Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of.

— Karen Walker

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

— Thornton Wilder

“I'm with the federal government, Drummond, Trust me is another way of saying I'm lying.”

— Brian Haig

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

— Richard Pryor

I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.

— Michael Bloomberg

Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.

— Baltasar Gracian

“For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.”

— John Green

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.

— Bernard Madoff