Lying Quotes · Page 146

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

— Giacomo Casanova

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

— Simon Barnes

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

— Epictetus

“Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie.”

— Glenda Bailey-Mershon

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

— David Levithan

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

— Nikki Giovanni

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

— Alexander Pope

If you don't respect each other and let it lie, it can be embarrassing or really frustrating.

— Jenny Slate

Like a garbage truck, we need a 'lie-truck' which will collect lies from everyone's houses every morning, even every hour!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working…

— Alvar Aalto

The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about…

— Adam DeVine

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is…

— Martin Luther

If you felt like somebody made you feel worthless, that is a lie. You are valuable, you deserve to be treated as…

— Lacey Mosley

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

— Carl Jung

The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's…

— James Walsh

He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious…

— Gary Larson

A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a…

— Azar Nafisi

It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual…

— Richard Reti

An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding…

— M. Scott Peck

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world…

— Cormac McCarthy

That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the…

— Anonymous

When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages,…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made…

— Joyce Cary

Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop…

— Henning Mankell

A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying.

— Louise Thaden

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

— Ram Dass

The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.

— Bill Johnson

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

— Margaret Mitchell

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be…

— Hugh Prather

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

— Sammy Cahn

If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple.

— Jennifer Lawrence

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

— Donald Freed

“If a liar tells you he is lying, is he telling the truth.”

— Shehan Karunatilaka

All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.

— Carolina Herrera

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

— Oscar Wilde

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

— Thomas Browne