Lying Quotes · Page 111

I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

— Honore de Balzac

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

— Octavio Paz

I like approbation. Any actor who tells you they don't is lying.

— Charles Dance

Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.

— Andrew Clements

You're not doing yourself a favor lying like that. Your pushing away everybody who's ever been there for you!

— Anonymous

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

— Graham Greene

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

— Elie Wiesel

Look into my eyes, tell me what you see. Do you see tears? Brokenness? An abandoned soul? No, you don't because I…

— Leslie

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all…

— Malachy McCourt

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

— Glen Cook

The big lie out there, the big lie that the Republicans propagate day after day, is that cutting marginal rates for those…

— Eliot Spitzer

The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen…

— Rob Roberge

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

— Tucker Max

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with…

— Pat Paulsen

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or…

— Charles de Lint

The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time…

— Joshua L. Liebman

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over.…

— Cormac McCarthy

I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I…

— Jon Foreman

You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day…

— Mark Driscoll

We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our…

— Arthur O'Shaughnessy

We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large…

— Sarah McCoy

Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever…

— Malik Zulu Shabazz

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

— Michael Caine

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When people get caught lying they run like little b*tches.

— Anonymous

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman…

— Khalil Gibran

Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure.

— Mike Murdock

Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull.

— Jim Rohn

Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!

— Walel Watson

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than…

— Michael Clarke Duncan

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

— H. L. Mencken

These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain

— Janet Fitch

Oh, it's nice to get up in the mornin', But it's nicer to lie in bed.

— Sir Harry Lauder

In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.

— Paulo Coelho

Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.

— Saahil Prem

If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.

— Harry S. Truman

Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

— William Shakespeare