Lying Quotes · Page 166

Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

— Ovid

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.

— Mattie Stepanek

My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That's hilarious.

— Kreayshawn

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

— Emile Zola

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

— Alexander Pope

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

— Edwidge Danticat

Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has…

— Marcel Proust

I didn't go looking to Colombia for a dream - if I tell you that, I'm lying. I went to Colombia because…

— Nicky Jam

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and…

— Winston Churchill

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to…

— Thomas Jefferson

The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free…

— H. L. Mencken

“Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a…

— Jane Harper

Even if I believed there was a real Jesus, I wouldn't fall for that line of hogwash. The "Virgin" Mary should get…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak…

— Black Hawk

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women.…

— Joyce Brothers

If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on…

— Arnold Bennett

The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill…

— E. F. Schumacher

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it…

— Martin Luther

The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is…

— Henry David Thoreau

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology…

— Donald Miller

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

— John Lydon

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

— Robert A. Heinlein

We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.

— Robert B. Leighton

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

— Simon Sinek

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

— Robert Breault

“Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

— David Bowie

Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.

— Karen Marie Moning

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

— Robert Breault

“Forgive me for lying. Forgive me for breaking your heart.”

— Lauren Blakely

I knew you were lying when you told me you loved me, because who would love a girl who cuts herself?

— Patience

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

— Jane Smiley

Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.

— Chris Gethard

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

— Gerhard Schroder

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

— Paula Abdul