Lying Quotes · Page 99

The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy…

— Charles Spurgeon

Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

— Isaiah

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

— Thomas Carlyle

[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect... The art of propaganda…

— Adolf Hitler

Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The…

— Edward Abbey

“Parents often fail to address early childhood lying, since the lying is almost innocent—their child’s too young to know what lies are,…

— Po Bronson

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies…

— Asger Jorn

In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

You fainted," I told Tank. "I did not," Tank said. "That's a lie.

— Janet Evanovich

Lake quiets, tired of my lies.

— Deborah Ager

“Someone says, "I am a liar." Is that person telling the truth? Or lying? If he's telling the truth, then he's not…

— Bun Katsuta

So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of…

— Bernard Baruch

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that…

— Anonymous

It's not just that there's no other spokesperson for the executive seat of power in a democratic republic anywhere in the world…

— Steve Schmidt

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

— Anonymous

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

— John Dryden

Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things—don’t leave your socks lying around—but so not strict about other…

— James Patterson

If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables…

— Milan Kundera

I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her…

— William Blake

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion,…

— Marianne Williamson

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

— Patrick Ness

Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

— Martin Firrell

Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.

— Ogden Nash

Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of.

— Karen Walker

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we…

— Otto Hahn

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

— Caroline B. Cooney

“I might be lying, but that did happen.”

— Whiskey Britches

If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people…

— Mike Miller

If someone says to you I Think I Love You, she/he is lying, because love comes from heart not the mind.

— Anonymous

I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.

— Robert Breault

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

— Anonymous

“If only it were harder to lie, maybe she could stop. But lying was easy. Well, easier than telling the truth. And”

— Emily Bleeker

Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them. I am all anger and resentment all the time.…

— Justine Larbalestier

I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I…

— Leon Wagner

Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day…

— Will Carleton

I always wanted to be the last guy on Earth, just to see if all those women were lying to me.

— Ronnie Shakes

Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper.

— Dana Gould