Lying Quotes · Page 13

Of lies, false modesty is the most decent.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

— Warren Ellis

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

— William Shakespeare

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

— Isaac Asimov

A very honest woman but something given to lie

— William Shakespeare

The future of India lies in its villages

— Mahatma Gandhi

To lie about a far country is easy

— Guy de Maupassant

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

— Benjamin Franklin

I hate it when people call me beautiful and they lying straight to my face

— Crystal

I shook hands on a deal with a man just to find out that he was lying.

— Justin Moore

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

— Asne Seierstad

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

— Alice Sebold

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

— Lou Holtz

His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus…

— Franz Kafka

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

— Michael Flynn

I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which…

— Kevin Rudd

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

— Marcel Proust

Does the ‘Paranormal’ lie within the margins between the ‘Metacosm’ [a larger reality beyond the macro/microcosms consisting of 10 dimensions or more]…

— Chuck Missler

We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this…

— Wilhelm II

Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we…

— Stanley Hauerwas

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may…

— Adolf Hitler

It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move…

— Maria Luisa Bombal

Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air…

— Henry David Thoreau

[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his…

— Ouida

When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I…

— Marlon Brando

“Did you love your brother?" "I don't remember." "You don't remember?" "No, Adam, I don't." He knew I was lying. I guess…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the…

— Ron Currie Jr

Happiness lies in your own hand

— Madonna Ciccone

For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.

— Samuel Lover

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

— Dean Koontz

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

— Alfred Nobel

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Don't repeat the lies of the liars.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Im tierd of all the lying..im done trying

— Autumn Kohler

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

— Jim Rohn