Lying Quotes · Page 81

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

— Richard Wilbur

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive,'

— Robert Brunner

the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.

— Gwen Raverat

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

— Isaiah

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

— Sappho

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

— Isaac Asimov

Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do,

— Tim Waterstone

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and…

— Pat Buchanan

America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as…

— Thomas M. Disch

Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked.…

— John Cheever

Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality…

— Juan Rulfo

Dating is great unless you don't like horrible awkwardness, lying, and a deep foreboding sense of disappointment that never goes away.

— Dov Davidoff

The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain…

— Robinson Jeffers

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

— Criss Jami

Now, the topic of religion seems much more complex, and I have a more complex relationship with it myself because I love…

— Adam Conover

Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there…

— Mark Crispin Miller

Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I guess because I'm so young, I m not sure of what lies ahead for me. I'm more into going the route…

— Heather Morris

In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience…

— Azar Nafisi

Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a…

— James F. Cooper

“My friend, I've been lying all my life. Even when I was telling the truth. I never spoke for the truth, but…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

— Anne Frank

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥

— Everett Ruess

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

— Phil Ochs

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

— Mary McCarthy

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

— Patricia Wentworth

It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying.

— James Nesbitt

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.

— Joseph Goebbels

Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.

— J. K. Rowling

I only lie for sex or money or to practice for when I need to lie for sex or money.

— Stephen Schneider

“With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.”

— Russian proverb

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

— Mira Grant

I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

— Richard Bach

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

— Anonymous

The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Share ownership of your ideas. The more people who lie awake in bed thinking about your idea, the better.

— Scott Belsky