Lying Quotes · Page 115

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

— Hugh Laurie

“...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.

— Ambrose Bierce

No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

— Penelope Lively

Here lies a man who was given a medal for killing two men, and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

— Leonard Matlovich

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

— Stephen King

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

— C. S. Lewis

The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome…

— Winifred Holtby

Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies…

— Dora Russell

I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or…

— Zooey Deschanel

Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has…

— Carl L. Becker

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to…

— Richard Trumka

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows…

— Karen Blixen

With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them…

— Paul Robeson

Don't yield to Satan's lie that you don't have time to study the scriptures. Choose to take time to study them. Feasting…

— Richard G. Scott

The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots…

— James Abourezk

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:…

— Octave Mirbeau

When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our…

— George Vaillant

The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold…

— Edward Gibbon

The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There are so many lies out there about what the good life is whether that's making as much money as you can…

— Trip Lee

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes.

— Bobby Vee

Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.

— Simone Elkeles

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

— Charlotte Bronte

Love me, even if it's a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye

— Faraaz Kazi

Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.

— Alexander Cannon

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

— Martha MacIsaac

I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.

— Andy Hallett

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

— Rosemary Mahoney

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

— Anton Chekhov

Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead.

— Thomas Haden Church

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.

— Robert Kane Pappas

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

— Phyllis McGinley

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

— Elena Ferrante

“Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.”

— Saki