Lying Quotes · Page 66

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

— William S. Burroughs

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames.

— Joseph Goebbels

Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.

— Soichiro Honda

Lying under this spell you cast on me Each moment The more I love you.

— Dave Matthews

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

— Tim O'Brien

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

— Madame de Stael

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

— Guy Finley

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.

— Russell Crowe

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the…

— Ovid

the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies…

— Hans Fritzsche

Scientists believe that monkeys can be taught to think, lie and even play politics within their community. If we can just teach…

— Jay Leno

You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has…

— Tony Dorsett

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

— James Branch Cabell

...It’s not the lies that hurt people. It’s the willingness of everyone else to believe them..." Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if…

— Will Graham

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of…

— Anonymous

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring…

— Henrik Ibsen

Jace,” she said. “Why are you doing this to me?” “Because you’re lying to me. And you’re lying to yourself.” Jace’s eyes…

— Cassandra Clare

The Greens have not been providing you with the full information about where their money comes from or what it's about. I…

— Clive Palmer

Love couldn't be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies-skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn't deny what it…

— Anonymous

Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due to the fact that - like taxes, defense and education - they…

— Ann Coulter

“I lied to you and it was easy, because you believe everybody means what they say. Everyone’s lying to you, Neverfell. Everyone.…

— Frances Hardinge

I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how…

— Nancy Farmer

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.

— Megan Chance

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

— Rumi

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.

— Ellin Devis

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

— John Maynard Keynes

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

— Shulamith Firestone

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

— Henry Ford

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

— Anonymous

Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.

— Henry Rollins

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

— Anthony Marais

The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.

— Walter Raleigh

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

— Howard Hodgkin

“...because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.”

— Junot Díaz

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

— Jean Genet

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

— Angela Thirkell

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

— Zig Ziglar