Lying Quotes · Page 145

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

— Charles Churchill

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

— Anonymous

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

— Elizabeth Berg

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.

— John Dryden

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

— Robert Jordan

A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.

— Sylvia Plath

Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.

— Christina Stead

Some people are so fake, sitting around lying on Facebook all day bragging about stuff they don't have.

— Anonymous

It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other…

— Saul Williams

I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King…

— Iron & Wine

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or…

— Robert Payne

One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the…

— Jackie Tabick

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it…

— Ernest Hemingway

Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was…

— Lady Gregory

I've repeatedly seen the anti-Russian card played during domestic political campaigns in the States. I think that it's a very short-sighted approach.…

— Vladimir Putin

When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly…

— Donald Knuth

To the citizens of Israel, I say: We have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcome them. The future…

— Ariel Sharon

It matters not how great the pressure is, only where the pressure lies. As long as the pressure does not come between…

— Hudson Taylor

But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official…

— Benjamin Carson

I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from…

— Tessa Dare

The third doorway is the Doorway of Unconditional Self-love, which corresponds to the energy center located in the solar plexus area. As…

— Marci Shimoff

Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.

— Amy Plum

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

— Veronica Roth

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

— Robert Breault

Power, for the writer…lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

— Ralph Ellison

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

— Victor Hugo

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

— Joshua Waitzkin

In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

— John Derbyshire

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

— Bob Dylan

But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

— Michael Chabon

If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.

— Ichiro Suzuki

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

— Mark Lawrence

I'd be lying to you if I said guys weren't afraid of him. I'm afraid of him, afraid of him running in…

— Paul Laus

This life is the greatest lie ever told and the hereafter is the greatest truth ever unknown

— Suhaib Webb

If anybody says they're not afraid of themselves, they're lying!

— Keala Settle

You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.

— Gordon Bethune