Lying Quotes · Page 114

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

— Jose Saramago

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

— Robert Breault

“Only when I quit lying to myself did I discover the real beauty of my truth.”

— Scott Stabile

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

— Pablo Picasso

I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

— Simon Van Booy

It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.

— Eusebius

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

— Taylor Momsen

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

— Marianne Williamson

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations…

— Terry Eagleton

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the…

— Dave Matthews

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies…

— Albert Camus

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even…

— Fidel Castro

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

— Thomas Carlyle

Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to…

— Charles Bukowski

It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly…

— Janet Evanovich

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived…

— Paulo Coelho

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is…

— Thomas Paine

The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as…

— Ptolemy

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers,…

— William Wordsworth

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible… The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they…

— Jack Kerouac

Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation…

— Thomas Nixon Carver

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

— Marcus Aurelius

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

— Kurt Vonnegut

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

— Charles de Lint

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

— Anonymous

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

— Jimmy Buffett

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

— Charlotte Armstrong

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

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

— Joseph Sobran

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

— Leonidas I

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

— Graham Greene

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

— William Shakespeare

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

— Avril Lavigne

“If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.”

— Chelsea Handler

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

— Mark Twain

There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

— Curt Flood

When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?

— Charles Lamb