Lying Quotes · Page 114

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

— Tamora Pierce

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

— W. Somerset Maugham

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

— Avril Lavigne

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

— Georges Braque

I'm so fed up with being looked in the eye and lied to when I absolutely know your lying.

— Anonymous

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

— Karin Fossum

Perfect people don't drink, don't fight, don't lie, don't make mistakes and...don't exist

— Paulo Coelho

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

— Josh Lanyon

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force…

— William Hazlitt

It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who…

— Stanley B. Goldenberg

“Here it was, the first of many lies he’d have to come up with. “Bella threw a knife at my head.” He’d…

— Nicole Castle

Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies…

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

“Don’t be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the…

— Dianna Hardy

I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or…

— Billy Boyd

“I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you…

— Lauren Oliver

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth -…

— Ernest Gaines

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think, for some children, your skills don't lie in written words. A lot of school is based around written words and…

— Erin Richards

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of…

— Thomas Brooks

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners…

— Alveda King

I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to…

— Jackson Browne

Honesty . . . is the foundation upon which relationships and many societies are built. Without it . . . there can…

— Janny Scott

I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills,…

— Erik Naggum

Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

— Tommy Chong

gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.

— Ambrose Bierce

All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

— Marquis de Custine

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

— Joseph Hall

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

— Lee Mack

Your teammates see you through the good and the bad. They see where your foundation lies.

— Tobin Heath

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

— John Hodgman

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

— Ariana Franklin

How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?

— Irving Berlin

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

— Martha Beck

Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

— Galileo Galilei

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

— Cornel West

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

— Isaac D'Israeli