Lying Quotes · Page 144

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

— Glen Duncan

Lying only builds a crappy bridge that leaves you to fall and drown one day.

— Anonymous

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

— Dagmar Godowsky

People tell you time heals all wounds..They're lying...what happens is you just get better at hiding the pain.

— Nishan Panwar

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

— W. H. Auden

I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

— Lars von Trier

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie…

— Jay Samit

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving…

— Gautama Buddha

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the…

— Lou Reed

At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down…

— Joseph Goebbels

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of…

— Herman Melville

We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if…

— Lily Tomlin

Come away with in the night Come away with me And I will sing you a song Come away with me on…

— Norah Jones

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse people are stupid, they will believe a lie because…

— Zedd

Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after…

— Augusten Burroughs

Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Well the other thing about lying is that the liar is banking on two things when telling the lie. They are hoping…

— Garry Crystal

The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have…

— David Dunn

There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have…

— Donna Tartt

In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to…

— Christian Boltanski

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

— Immanuel Kant

Marvel's very secretive, and I'm not hiding anything, I'm not lying; it's just the way they are.

— Elodie Yung

Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.

— W. H. Auden

“Delusional group-think can help us change into what we cannot deceive ourselves into becoming on our own”

— Ptera Hunter

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

— Jodi Picoult

Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

— Henry Ward Beecher

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.

— Philip Agee

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

— Ben Stein

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

— Jay Asher

It seems too easy to lie in the moment but you always have to tell more lies on top of it to…

— Candace Cameron

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

— Mahatma Gandhi

Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.

— George Rodrigue

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

— John Milton

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

— Rebecca West

If you talk about people that lie, this Ted Cruz, this is the biggest liar I've ever seen.

— Donald Trump