Lying Quotes · Page 132

If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.

— Peter Hitchens

When people lie straight to your face, especially when you know the truth.

— Anonymous

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

— Deacon Jones

“There's a very thin difference between lying and breaking the promise.”

— Toba Beta

Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

— Jodi Picoult

There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

— Saul Bellow

If a man is telling you something you want to hear - there is a 99.9% chance he's lying.

— Cristina Orante

Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.

— Amit Ray

As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road,…

— Gail Collins

Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said…

— Margaret Weis

There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath.…

— Romola Garai

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street,…

— Judith Viorst

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure…

— Plato

Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame…

— George W. Bush

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its…

— Aldo Leopold

As an American I must say I haven't been very encouraged by the way in which the people who run the government…

— Richard Lewontin

Do not lift him from the bracken, Leave him lying where he fell- Better bier ye cannot fashion: None beseems him half…

— William Edmondstoune Aytoun

If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets,…

— Sinclair Lewis

I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven;…

— Samuel Rutherford

We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It…

— Anonymous

If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize…

— George Henry Lewes

When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or…

— Glenn Beck

Now before you start lying, just ask yourself, am I really that fine?

— Travis McCoy

Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

— Natalie Portman

When people tell you they always believed something was going to happen, I think they're lying.

— Eddie Kingston

People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying.

— Tee Grizzley

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

— H. G. Wells

Even with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.

— Dave Collins

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

— Alain de Botton

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

— Jodi Picoult

The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.

— Samuel Clarke

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

— August Kekule

The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us…

— David Swing

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

— Malorie Blackman

Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

— Democritus

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

— Rita Mae Brown