Lying Quotes · Page 141

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.

— Sun Tzu

I'd be lying if I did not say that being a woman of colour is something I am always mindful or aware…

— Alesha Dixon

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.

— Seth

Everybody wants financial security for their family, and when a player says otherwise, he's lying.

— Richarlison

Never seem to have a Death Star lying around when you need one.” -Han Solo

— Anonymous

He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.

— Albert Einstein

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

— Lyman Beecher

I've been on a lot of teams and coaches tell you this and that. They all be lying.

— Cordarrelle Patterson

Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.

— Yukio Mishima

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

— Douglas Coupland

Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than…

— John Ralston Saul

I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of…

— Esther Rolle

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves…

— Philip Berrigan

This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great…

— Anonymous

If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life…

— Maurice Chevalier

The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The…

— Arthur C. Clarke

He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're…

— Ellen Hopkins

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife,…

— Herman Melville

You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in…

— Bernard Law Montgomery

Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an…

— Phyllis Schlafly

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.

— Thomas Creech

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

— Diane Ackerman

The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

— Adrienne Rich

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

— Tony Campolo

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

— Isaac D'Israeli

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

— Ann Aguirre

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

— Michael Parenti

I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't.

— Rocky Marciano

For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.

— Thomas Hood

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

— Maxim Gorky

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

— John Locke

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

— Jeremy Collier

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

— Anonymous

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

— Marcus Buckingham

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld