Lying Quotes · Page 75

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

— Cornel West

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

— Jean Cocteau

It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

— John Milton

So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

— John Green

If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore

— Chris Hillman

Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.

— Wahb ibn Munabbih

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

— Louis Kronenberger

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the…

— Ovid

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line…

— Jennifer Egan

I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes. Fun fun fun in the…

— Howard Goodall

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they…

— Gore Vidal

In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been…

— Herbert Hoover

I go to bed is around 11, and I do that for every race. I get good sleep. I don't lie awake…

— Mario Andretti

Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option,…

— Andrew Weil

Be honest: if your pitch is 90 minutes and you only have 60 set aside for a business lunch or a cup…

— Michael Gerber

...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for…

— Richard Ford

All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone…

— Dogen

And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the…

— Lauren Oliver

I'm not interested in the wellbeing of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings…

— Jaggi Vasudev

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and…

— Joseph Addison

When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember…

— Anonymous

Some things are better when it’s raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this.” “Lying in bed with me?

— Lisa Kleypas

You do not represent the muslims properly unless u stop lying and cheating people..

— Carissa Aydaa

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

— Yukio Mishima

Once you get caught lying, I won't believe anything you say after that.

— Anonymous

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

— Mark Twain

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

— Thomas Huxley

Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to be a head coach at some point.

— Sean McVay

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

— Oscar Wilde

There's no messiahs out here, baby, but I found the holy grail alright. Cause I'm lying in your arms tonight.

— Marc Cohn

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

— Michelangelo

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

— Henry Miller

Mom: Stop lying to me! Me:Tooth fairy, easter bunny and santa *walks away like a boss*

— Brookie

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

— James W. Loewen

Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.

— Kenneth Branagh