Lying Quotes · Page 182

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm…

— Sammy Hagar

God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is…

— Mark Twain

Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception…

— William Least Heat-Moon

The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business…

— Akhenaton

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying…

— W. P. Kinsella

We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket…

— Ruta Sepetys

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be…

— Jessie Cave

There are no 'perfect liars' in the world; there are only 'perfect believers' who believe in even the most obvious lies!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well…

— Peter Greenaway

No.” He wouldn’t lie about that. Not to her. And not because she’d rip him to pieces when she discovered the truth.…

— Gena Showalter

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise…

— Emily Dickinson

I'm so thankful because of my relationship with Jesus Christ and being adopted in the family of God that I don't have…

— Tim Tebow

“The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take her to the kitchen,” came the order. “If she lies, throw her in the cauldron." “He was jesting about the cauldron,…

— Nalini Singh

Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will…

— Stephen Covey

All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it…

— Anonymous

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with…

— Samuel Johnson

Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important…

— A. M. Rosenthal

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the…

— Ally Carter

Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is…

— Lucy Worsley

What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one…

— Sacha Guitry

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance,…

— George Farquhar

This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a…

— Lewis Black

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with…

— Holly Black

Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between…

— Philip K. Dick

The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.

— Robert Bridges

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that.…

— Robert Jordan

Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's…

— Milton Berle

I never stopped being attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you're either straight or gay or lying, but…

— Clive Davis

When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom.…

— Jack Herer

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to…

— Richard Powers

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up…

— Nicholas Delbanco

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth…

— Aleister Crowley

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

— Mark Twain

Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other…

— Helen McCloy

Therein lies the rub of a place like Berkeley Bowl. You get seduced by an 11-pound apple that turns out to be…

— Jad Abumrad

Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit…

— William Blake

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get…

— Emily Post

We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty…

— Anonymous