Lying Quotes · Page 72

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

— Harold Evans

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

— Elbert Hubbard

Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

— Ann Voskamp

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

— Boris Pasternak

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

— William Shakespeare

It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

— Mark Russinovich

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Suffering and drama begin when you lie to yourself, even if you don't realize you are lying.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

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'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

“A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up.…

— Anne Lamott

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent…

— David Popenoe

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no…

— Desmond Tutu

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

— Harold Cruse

I would be lying if I said if I didn't miss out on what normal teenagers do, of course. But I don't…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

I truly believe that players who tell you they don't feel the pressure of international cricket, of being away from home for…

— AB de Villiers

Intelligent people, caught at anything, denied it. Faced with evidence of having denied it falsely, people said they had not done it…

— Renata Adler

“It all comes together inside her, and she can’t begin to explain. “It’s just a pattern,” she says, feeling bad because it’s…

— M.R. Carey

It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and…

— William Graham Sumner

Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life…

— Leo Tolstoy

Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for…

— Seneca the Younger

“Don't you ever feel like everyone is bullshitting you? Just saying what they think you want to hear? Like everyone is constantly…

— Matthew Quick

Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From…

— Nicole Krauss

The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to…

— Jonah Goldberg

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

— John Berryman

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

— Ally Carter

Lying to my face doesnt change a thing. only makes yourself badder then you already are.

— $Teady

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

— Horace

I believe that beauty lies in what makes you feel happy.

— Katrina Kaif

The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

— Desmond Morris

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

— Willa Cather

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

— William Shakespeare

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

— Orson Scott Card

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Can't stand when I know you're lying and I give you a chance to tell me the truth.

— Anonymous

“If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gorkha”

— Field Marshal Manekshaw

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

— William Blake

I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

— Thornton Wilder