Lying Quotes · Page 153

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to…

— Tom Holt

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

— Immortal Technique

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

— Jacques-Louis David

We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies

— Dennis Kucinich

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

— William Maxwell

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

— Bertolt Brecht

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

— Michael Moorcock

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against…

— George MacDonald

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and…

— Herman Melville

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different…

— Michael Kimmelman

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

— Anonymous

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right…

— Plotinus

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can…

— Diane Chamberlain

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make…

— Richard Steele

Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my head. I try to approach it…

— Edge

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will,…

— Anais Nin

I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid…

— Boris Yeltsin

I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and…

— Thomas Chalmers

Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the…

— George Orwell

How is Christmas regarded today? The legend of Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, the decorations of tinsel and mistletoe, and the giving…

— Howard W. Hunter

How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate the languid, enervating air…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

If you've already got caught lying then why lie more about the situation?

— Amber'Ley Della-Calce

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

— Emma Lazarus

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

— Woodrow Wilson

You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.

— Aristippus

What people dont know can hurt them. Hiding the truth is the same as lying.

— Anonymous

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

— John Dryden

When you lie down on your bed to sleep, remember with thanksgiving the blessings and the providence of God.

— Anthony the Great

...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

— Alfred the Great

“We are so desperate for external validation that we’ll even accept it from someone who may be lying to us.”

— Nev Schulman

The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

“Either he's lying, which is bad. Or he could be telling the truth, which is worse”

— Cinda Williams Chima

A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.

— Martin Luther

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

— Anonymous

Lying is the most fun a girl could have without anyone realising it.

— Anonymous

True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

— Donald Miller

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

— David Geffen