Lying Quotes · Page 70

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

— Clement of Alexandria

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

— Mark Twain

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

— Francis Quarles

Aren't the clouds beautiful? I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by...

— Charles M. Schulz

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

— Billy Corgan

My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.

— Andre Kertesz

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

— James Wright

“I said with perfect honesty, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.”

— Robin McKinley

In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot…

— Jodi Picoult

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

— Mark Lawrence

In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin'…

— Wyclef Jean

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie…

— Robert Grudin

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck,…

— Richard Donner

Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we…

— Paul Madonna

I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have…

— Vanessa Carlton

We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world…

— Stella Young

I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about…

— Amanda Plummer

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm…

— Robert Walser

Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one…

— Henry James

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past,…

— Virginia Woolf

Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the…

— John Seabrook

The key to having everything we want lies in expanding our definition of what's possible and focusing on what we want. That's…

— Mark Victor Hansen

People don't tend to lie about themselves when they're in imminent danger.

— Hark-Joon Lee

Beauty lies mainly, above all, in personality, not in the skin.

— Eva Longoria

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

— Khalil Gibran

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

— Nadeem Aslam

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

— Margaret Mead

Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team.

— Laura Halldorson

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

— Oswald Chambers

Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.

— Frank Ocean

Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.

— Danny Thomas

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

— Anne Rice

What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if

— Hillary Jordan

“If you are lying, you have built your lie on true foundations.”

— Lawrence Block

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

— C. S. Lewis

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

— William Congreve

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

— Sebastian Horsley