Lying Quotes · Page 163

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a…

— Frank Herbert

Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

— Russ Potts

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

— Samuel Butler

Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in…

— Sathya Sai Baba

The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

— Abraham Lincoln

Lying to yourself is like telling yourself 'no' while everyone says 'yes'..

— Anonymous

Wisdom lies in recognizing the dangers that lie within us and doing battle with them daily.

— Max Anders

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

— Stanley Donen

I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and…

— Walter Kirn

George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never…

— Red Buttons

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion…

— Ouida

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at…

— Christopher Dawson

But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force…

— Virginia Woolf

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down…

— Sharon Olds

Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up.…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie…

— Anais Nin

Here in the U.S. we do have a problem with a president Donald Trump who uses language in two distinctly destructive ways.…

— Masha Gessen

For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or…

— Margaret Thatcher

Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry…

— Brian Aldiss

IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has…

— Joyce Kilmer

When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako…

— Natsuo Kirino

Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had. Warren Lasher Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano Charles Deats or Keats Alfonse Tuck it…

— Lorrie Moore

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It…

— Joss Whedon

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

— Anonymous

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

— Vaclav Havel

Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.

— David Suzuki

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

— George Deukmejian

I'm not saying - in any way - that Donald Driver is lying or lacking sincerity. But I trust my reporting.

— Jeff Pearlman

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

— J. C. Ryle

Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.

— Osbert Sitwell

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

— Maria Montessori

Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.

— Michael Jackson

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

— Matthew Arnold

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

— James Bovard

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

— Ice Cube

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.

— Bertrand Russell

True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want.

— Paget Brewster

People will take you more seriously if you never hold back your words...They can tell when you're lying.

— Anonymous

To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.

— Dan Falk