Lying Quotes · Page 64

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

— Mark Twain

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

— Juvenal

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

— Pamela Meyer

If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.

— Joseph Goebbels

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

— Alastair Reynolds

the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth

— Michael Scott

In compassion lies the world's true strength.

— Gautama Buddha

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

— Aleister Crowley

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

— Jodi Picoult

It’s just as easy to lie to yourself as it is to lie to other people. Maybe easier.

— David Lubar

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

— Georg Solti

MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

— Napoleon Hill

Every actor pretends that they hate sex scenes, and the truth is that they all love them, and they're lying.

— Mindy Kaling

Don't play with someones heart, there are plenty of toys in the world, why choose their hearts?

— James Hudson

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

— Iggy Pop

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

— George Orwell

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is…

— Terry Pratchett

What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it…

— Sloane Crosley

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

— Julia Ward Howe

I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to…

— Ayumi Hamasaki

There could never be a more beautiful you; dont buy the lies, disguises and hoops they make you jump through; you were…

— Jonny Diaz

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a…

— Killer Mike

By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in…

— Cassandra Clare

[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his…

— Ouida

the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about…

— Katharine Tynan

Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are…

— Frank Herbert

But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the…

— Ron Currie Jr

In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support…

— Henry Hazlitt

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope.…

— William S. Burroughs

[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base…

— Georg Brandes

"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.

— Charles Bukowski

Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hope lies in what the book title says, finding love and community.

— Hazel Rochman

“Brastias. My friend.” Uh-oh, this couldn’t be good. “Do you lie to me?” “Uh . . . no.” “See? That’s a lie!”

— G.A. Aiken

People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.

— Jean Cocteau

He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.

— Mickey Mantle

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

— Ian Anderson

Your teammates see you through the good and the bad. They see where your foundation lies.

— Tobin Heath