Lying Quotes · Page 143

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

— Busy Philipps

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

— Lauren Groff

The Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

— Samuel

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

— Jack London

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

— Dennis Lehane

“I get the feeling that it's all a big lie. The problem is I don't know who's lying.”

— Stephen Chbosky

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

— Vera Nazarian

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

— Maya Angelou

The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that…

— John Baldoni

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

— Francis Bacon

Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

— Albert Camus

You can easily tell if a person is lying and cheating on you if they say, I love you. I would never…

— Dane Cook

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

— Toni Morrison

To us is given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history and in the better days…

— Bernard Law Montgomery

Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the…

— Richard Branson

Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with…

— F. Sionil José

Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of…

— Margaret Atwood

I think one of the first steps - and I'm glad we were able to reach, again, a bipartisan agreement - is…

— Jeff Miller

the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed…

— George Eliot

The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It…

— Rajneesh

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope…

— Anonymous

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea…

— Kate Atkinson

The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by…

— Joyce Lee Malcolm

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet…

— Imre Kertész

A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.

— Robin Sharma

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

— Isobelle Carmody

The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

— Eugene O'Neill

The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.

— St. Catherine of Siena

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

— Meridel Le Sueur

So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn.

— Ted Hughes

I'm kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.

— MJ Hegar

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does…

— Robert Breault

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

— Plato

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

— Vanessa Carlton

The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in…

— Mencius

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.

— David Mitchell

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.

— Ovid

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

— Anonymous