Lying Quotes · Page 152

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

— Molly Ringwald

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

— William Shakespeare

I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it.

— Rumi

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

— Carl Sandburg

I can handle the fights and the arguments but lying to me is a whole different story.

— Rachel

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

— Ernest Hemingway

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

— Bristol Palin

Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive

— Adolf Hitler

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the…

— Carlos Fuentes

Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him…

— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

“The COVID-19 pandemic was an excellent example of what the government does best: Blatantly lying to their citizens.”

— Steven Magee

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did;…

— Val Kilmer

“Are you okay?” someone asked. “I’m fine,” I snapped, turning to face Jayden Griffin. “I have to admit, you’re getting better at…

— Maya Bode

No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter…

— Edgar Guest

You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and…

— Bob Proctor

I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies…

— Harriet Hosmer

“met Barnaby Wiggam's ghost. The fat, bulbous-nosed spirit fading in and out beside me like a faulty gas lamp clearly thought he…

— C.J. Archer

Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your…

— Harvey Milk

I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and…

— Mira Grant

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write…

— Isabel Allende

Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told…

— B. B. King

“What were you doing? This lot said you were over there," he growled, pointing to the section of the library he'd just…

— Caroline Peckham

My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on…

— Cassandra Clare

“There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended. ”

— Don DeLillo

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

— Max Eastman

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

— William Carey

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

— Karen Marie Moning

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

— Anonymous

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

— Jonah Lehrer

The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

— James Rollins

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

— Jean Cocteau

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

— Henry Timrod

The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.

— Nathaniel Branden

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

I'm just so tired of people lying to me and going behind my back.

— Lynn

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.

— Marilyn Monroe

That romantic notion of a band being a total democracy is just like lying to yourself in the mirror.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

— Henrik Ibsen

I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am…

— Kami Garcia