Lying Quotes · Page 140

“How to lie without lying? Avoid answering the question.”

— Chloe Neill

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

— Abraham Cowley

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

— Lionel Shriver

Lies will always be bitter in the end,no matter how sweet you made it at the beginning.

— Anonymous

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

— Edgar Allan Poe

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

— William McIlvanney

The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.

— Arthur Murray

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

— Megan Whalen Turner

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order…

— Isabel Allende

People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about being believed, so they work harder - too hard, as it were -…

— Christopher Voss

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not…

— Gueorgui Pinkhassov

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life…

— Marco Pierre White

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups…

— Ray Bradbury

In every man s life there lies latent energy. There is, however, a spark that, if kindled, will set the whole being…

— James Cash Penney

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and…

— Hilaire Belloc

People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door;…

— Edgar Allan Poe

But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought…

— Anonymous

The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“Dorothy wants to talk to you. Don't ask her to eat with us." When Nora returned from the telephone she had a…

— Dashiell Hammett

She had said she didn’t feel fear, but it was a lie; this was her fear: being left alone. Because of one…

— Laini Taylor

But the most horrible spot … lies…immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives…

— Friedrich Engels

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end…

— Joseph Conrad

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

— Denis Johnson

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

— Ivan Turgenev

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

— Muriel Spark

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

— John Milton

It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center.

— Aristotle

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!

— Sidney Howard

98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.

— David Remnick

The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist.

— Clive Davis

Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

— Robert M. Hensel

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

— Florence Nightingale

Being married is different than not being married, and anybody who tells you that it's the same is lying.

— Scarlett Johansson

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

— John Donne

“What I possess, I see far distant lying, And what I lost, grows real and undying.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

— Anonymous