Lying Quotes · Page 110

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

— Stephen King

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

— Elbert Hubbard

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

— Howard Barker

Even the truth, when believed, is a lie. You must experience the truth, not believe it.

— Werner Erhard

I've practiced meditation most of my life. It's better than lying around doing nothing.

— Tom Sims

We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true.

— Oliver North

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

— Morgan Saylor

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do…

— Roger von Oech

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch…

— Tayari Jones

Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

— Ben Folds

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits…

— Rebecca West

You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people…

— Adolf Hitler

I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying…

— Cassandra Clare

Vincent Gallo once said Williamsburg was like a giant dorm room with no homework. He was right. And now you've got lawyers…

— Gavin McInnes

The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably…

— Jacob M. Appel

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea…

— Kate Atkinson

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This…

— Erich Fromm

Hold everything. I missed a four-way chick fight. Then I find out someone's been nibbling." William's attention shifted to Olivia, who was…

— Gena Showalter

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,…

— Hilary Mantel

I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth…

— Diane Guerrero

The only thing is I am a little bit ashamed of is I didn't come out earlier, that I didn't have the…

— Ian Thorpe

What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

— Jessica Hahn

I am a big fan of[Barak] Obama.I'd like to lie on the ground and have him walk over me.

— Giovanna Cau

Lies will always be bitter in the end,no matter how sweet you made it at the beginning.

— Anonymous

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

— William James

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

— Anonymous

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.

— Anonymous

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

— Victor Hugo

You're either the liar or the one being lied to, protect yourself from being either one.

— Gerson Monago

“Here I sit and there you are lying; we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt to tell you the truth.

— Marshall Sylver

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

— Michael Kinsley

I'm kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that.

— Gwen Stefani

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.

— Elliott Abrams

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies

— William Shakespeare