Lying Quotes · Page 128

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

— Allen Ginsberg

“Some say honesty is the best policy. I believe lying to yourself is a form of self-preservation.”

— Lexi Kingston

That awkward moment when you're actually telling the truth,but you laugh, and everyone thinks you're lying.

— Anonymous

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

— Michel de Montaigne

I don’t like to lie – so there’d better be a good reason why I’m doing it.

— Stephenie Meyer

What I found with depression was that it occurred when I was lying dormant, when I had nothing better to do.

— Bugzy Malone

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

— Azar Nafisi

Anytime a musician says they're going to retire they're lying.

— The-Dream

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows…

— Paul Scott

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was…

— Douglas Adams

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war…

— David Gemmell

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in…

— Dylan Thomas

Learning what the world is like; learning what mankind is like - these are hindered if students lie to another, or steal,…

— Kenneth G. Elzinga

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

— Meher Baba

I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of…

— Joanna Baillie

When I'm lying in bed I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into…

— Victoria Beckham

I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of…

— Harold Pinter

I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.…

— Jeanette Winterson

He's just very deceiving. He just covers a lot of ground with ease. I got to the three-eighths pole, and I even…

— Ramon A. Dominguez

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do…

— Albert Einstein

The first way to tell if someone is lying and giving your their persuasive version of events. Ask them do they mind…

— Merle Rutledge Jr

In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine,…

— Bertrand Russell

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures - they're lying if they say they haven't. Virgin has had some tremendously…

— Richard Branson

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

— Charles Churchill

It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.

— Emilie Loring

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

— Michael Hutchence

All talk is lies in a way. Only the doing of a thing can make it true.

— Donal Ryan

All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

— P. J. O'Rourke

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

— Maya Angelou

You will Love me and I will end up Lying to you that I LOVE YOU TOO

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

“I'm trying to stop lying to myself about little things. I'm still working on the big ones.”

— Terry McMillan

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

— Audre Lorde

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

— Eudora Welty

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie

— Lauren Oliver

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

[Ted Cruz] lies about things that he shouldn't be lying about. He lies about things that don't matter.

— Donald Trump

It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

— Neil Gaiman

I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie.

— Rainer Maria Rilke