Lying Quotes · Page 115

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

— Al Franken

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

— Anne Carson

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

— Jean Cocteau

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

— Mark Gatiss

If you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie.

— Michelle Wie

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

— Megan Whalen Turner

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of…

— Brennan Manning

A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of…

— Charles Lamb

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her…

— Melina Marchetta

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

— Glen Cook

Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.

— Ralph McGehee

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

— Daniel Ellsberg

We all grew up on movies with scenes where the actor is lying, and you know he's lying, but he wants to…

— Gene Wilder

He glanced down at the blood-smeared cut on his side...and realized he wasn't wearing any clothing. I'd be lying if I said…

— Kelley Armstrong

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.'…

— Dustin Hoffman

Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in…

— Sara Teasdale

Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms--and…

— Marc Levy

The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation.....There is no…

— Robert S. Mendelsohn

The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only…

— Quentin Crisp

Some people say that our salvation lies with God, or with God's Son, yet is not the human heart the place where…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

— Pete Hamill

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

People lie all the time in their divorce proceedings, especially when custody is an issue.

— Megyn Kelly

Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.

— Will Rogers

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

— Douglas Adams

For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate.

— Ani DiFranco

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

— Anthony Bourdain

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

— William Congreve

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.

— Bertrand Russell

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

— I. F. Stone

When I say IDGAF or I dont care, Im actually lying to myself because all I can do is care.

— Ocean Kusher

The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

— Mason Cooley

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

— Michael Hutchence

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

— Alexander Pope

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.

— Michael Caine

The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.

— Albert E. Bowen