Lying Quotes · Page 112

I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.

— Magnus Carlsen

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

— Patrick Marber

...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

— Ally Carter

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

— Kim Edwards

Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

— Michael J. Sullivan

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.

— Marilyn Monroe

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

— William Carey

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself…

— George Bernard Shaw

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

— Paul Auster

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein…

— Richard Yates

Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.

— Thomas Huxley

We came to see Jace. Is he alright?" "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like…

— Cassandra Clare

I think percussions just been lying dormant in me for some time, and my musical aspirations have been unlocked now I have…

— Dion Dublin

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily…

— Dean Koontz

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

— Anonymous

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want…

— Ellsworth Kelly

Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready…

— Franz Kafka

What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent…

— Marian Wright Edelman

It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are…

— Woody Allen

There's something outrageously funny about the bold-faced lying that's going on, in a general way. Just the blatant denial of facts, whether…

— Matt Walsh

In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“One of the problems with lying is you can never tell just one. It usually takes at least three, but sometimes more.…

— Toni Teepell

It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“You do not mean that, my sweet. I know you are lying.” Yes. Maybe. Crap! I don’t…“No".”

— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.

— Buck Brannaman

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

— Marianne Williamson

Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.

— Jeaniene Frost

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I hate when things are sugar-coated. I'd rather have the ugliest truth than the best lie.

— Chloe Grace Moretz

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

— Enrique Iglesias

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

— Helen McCloy

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

— Kurt Vonnegut

......is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends.

— Anonymous

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

— William Shakespeare

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

— Victor Hugo

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis