Lying Quotes · Page 133

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

— Rudyard Kipling

“The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

— William James

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.

— Jennifer Lee Carrell

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

— Eric Idle

The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.

— Raymond Radiguet

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

— Werner Herzog

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

— Anonymous

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle,…

— Charles Simic

“Everything has become too easy for our young people, and we make things worse by lying to them. We don't help them…

— Rafe Esquith

It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern…

— Matt Ridley

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies…

— Albert Schweitzer

Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very…

— Joseph Cook

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie…

— Sydney J. Harris

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need…

— Angelus Silesius

For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters…

— Willa Cather

People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we…

— Leon Golub

Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes…

— Chris Bohjalian

There's a huge misconception that it's all about the oil, and the truth is there's actually not much oil left in Abyei.…

— Rebecca Hamilton

“Everyone lies... It may not be about the same thing, but everyone does it. People do it to fit in, people do…

— Lionel Suggs

There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life…

— Perry Marshall

I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes…

— Emily Gould

There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent…

— Audrey Flack

The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

— Countee Cullen

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

— Margaret Atwood

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality.

— Bret Michaels

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

— Alice Hoffman

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

— Julia Cameron

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

— Henry Rollins

“Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.”

— Bergen Evans

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

— William Osler

Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? … Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals,

— Terry Wogan

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

— I. F. Stone

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

— Romain Rolland

“When the tax man cometh, lie about lying on your taxes.”

— Jarod Kintz

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

— Robinson Jeffers

Never accept lies for the sake of Saving your relationship, If they're lying to you , there's nothing to save.

— Orebela Gbenga

The theater has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told.

— Charles Ludlam