Lying Quotes · Page 111

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

— John Dryden

“Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.”

— Saul Bellow

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest safety lies in putting all your eggs in one basket and watching the basket.

— Gerald M. Loeb

That's stupid. If anyone sees themselves in ten years they're lying to themselves first.

— Lil Wayne

“The practice of deception is foolishness because the truth always eventually surfaces.”

— Hayley Solich

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

— Edmund Waller

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

— Woody Allen

Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.

— Napoleon Hill

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing…

— John Wilmot

To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and…

— Manti Te'o

Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a…

— Cindy Sheehan

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades…

— Elia Kazan

Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing…

— Gautama Buddha

I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.

— Pat Paulsen

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying…

— Truman Capote

I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I…

— Aisha Tyler

America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of…

— Vladimir Lenin

Being constructively critical is good, as long as your purpose is to improve your methods for future endeavors. Lying in bed and…

— Chris Hardwick

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does…

— Immanuel Kant

Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations…

— Maria Montessori

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible,…

— Franz Kafka

When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages,…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds…

— John Updike

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

— Eugene J. Martin

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

— Walter Savage Landor

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

— Mark Twain

Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

— Aleister Crowley

Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

— Democritus

You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

— Fabrice Muamba

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

— D. H. Lawrence

North Korean defectors can usually tell when other defectors are lying about their past.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

— Philip K. Dick

"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying.

— Screamin' Jay Hawkins

If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.

— Peter Hitchens

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Time flies, dreams die, people lose faith, Tryna hide behind a lie with a straight face.

— Xzibit

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

— Ned Rorem