Lying Quotes · Page 70

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

— Billy Childish

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

— Chapman Cohen

Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

— Anne Rice

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

— Louis L'Amour

Someday the lion is going to lie down with the lamb, but the lamb isn't going to get much sleep.

— Woody Allen

Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.

— Al Feldstein

Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?

— Conrad Aiken

The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.

— Sappho

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by…

— Abraham Cahan

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true…

— Cathy Lee Crosby

What I've learned from fighting is that the lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do…

— Walel Watson

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty…

— Anonymous

Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of… Besides, I am lying;…

— Claude Cahun

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get…

— Emily Post

The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their…

— Jacob Bronowski

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature.…

— Marlo Thomas

It's not like it ruined my life, I was going to say, but then I didn't. Because it occurred to me that…

— Dan Chaon

Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be…

— John Bunyan

You just did a whole read-through. The lie that brought us into war was that Iraq was a threat to us. Well,…

— Janeane Garofalo

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners…

— Alveda King

But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the…

— Paul Monette

“The truth does not hurt, but it cures the disease of lying.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth." Homer Simpson

— Matt Groening

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

— Johann Gottfried Herder

scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.

— Steve Irwin

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

— Piet Mondrian

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes...

— George Sand

Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.

— Andre Agassi

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

— William Cowper

Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

— Neil Gaiman

Whatever you do in life but never lie to your loved ones.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.

— Douglas Horton

I am wearing a size 28 Paige Jeans. Jeans don't lie, and I am just happy!

— Ricki Lake

I don't know what lies ahead, but I want to keep going forever...

— Fuyumi Soryo

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

— Leo Tolstoy

If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.

— Jerzy Grotowski