Lying Quotes · Page 268

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it…

— H. L. Mencken

I truly beleive that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us.

— Gillian Anderson

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I've been on a lot of teams and coaches tell you this and that. They all be lying.

— Cordarrelle Patterson

I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow…

— Robin Hobb

Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's…

— Noam Chomsky

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

— David Bowie

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

— Matthew Lesko

The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

— Andre Kertesz

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

— William Carey

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

— Norman Spinrad

This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can,…

— John O'Donohue

Major danger lie for America? That we could very well be defeated oversees and at home. And the source of it is…

— Michael Scheuer

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I was in my teens and I was going through a bit of a phase, drinking a lot and doing E tablets…

— Damien Dempsey

Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself.…

— Albertus Magnus

America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by…

— Harold Cruse

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

— Elbert Hubbard

No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

— Julio Cortazar

Love doesnt hurt. lying, cheating, and screwing with people's feelings and emotions hurts.

— Bae

Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great…

— Omar Samra

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile." "...Where's all the loot?" "That, as my cousin…

— Eoin Colfer

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted…

— Hannah Arendt

I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see,…

— Pope Dionysius

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

— Israel Zangwill

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

— Wendy Lesser

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

— Sylvia Plath

One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…

— Jared Diamond

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing…

— John Steinbeck

Playing with my sister - we always had musical instruments lying around the house.

— Alissa White-Gluz

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, "Why am I lying to everybody?"…

— Kendall Jenner

I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to…

— Missy Elliot

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

— Anonymous