Lying Quotes · Page 157

The beauty of a move lies not in it's appearance but in the thought behind it.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

“It's difficult to honest with others when you continue lying to yourself.”

— Carlos Wallace

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

— Norman Douglas

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible.

— Chris Bohjalian

I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.

— Kit Harington

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

— John Dewey

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

— Norman Mailer

There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.

— Ben Askren

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck,…

— Richard Donner

I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have…

— Vanessa Carlton

Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we…

— Paul Madonna

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy:…

— Samuel Rutherford

You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it…

— William Monahan

“Dating is basically this weird thing where you go out and pretend to be someone you're not until the other person likes…

— Kevin Molesworth

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one…

— Stephen Graham Jones

Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.

— Oswald Chambers

“You have no idea. when you're a salesman here in Marrakech medima, lying is the first thing you learn. generation after generation,…

— Tahir Shah

I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I…

— Portia de Rossi

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A…

— Salman Rushdie

... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased…

— David Hume

I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of…

— August Tholuck

Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The truth is harsh." Anubis said. "Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of…

— Rick Riordan

There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the…

— Obert Skye

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

— George Santayana

I'm dying and trying But believe me I'm fine But I'm lying I'm so very far from fine.

— Anonymous

I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people.

— Jane Goodall

Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them

— Jonathan Barnbrook

Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.

— George Vaillant

I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“If she were lying on a plate with a herring, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.”

— Woody Allen

He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and…

— Alice Cooper

What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

— Jessica Hahn

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

— Mark Twain

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

— Paul Johnson

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

— John Green

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

— Lucretius

Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Demons don't play by the rules. They lie and they cheat and they stab in the back.

— Alan Grant

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

— Walter Savage Landor