Lying Quotes · Page 85

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

— Mark Twain

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

— Hugh Laurie

When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?

— Charles Lamb

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

— Graham Greene

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

— Avril Lavigne

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

— William Shakespeare

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

— Charlotte Armstrong

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose…

— Norman Geisler

This is a making-money business, and the only way to make money is knocking people out. Lying on someone? That's pathetic to…

— Justin Gaethje

If somebody says Kyrie Irving wants the Boston Celtics to win the championship without him, they're flat-out lying to you.

— Jalen Rose

According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says…

— Amy Poehler

Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here…

— Nevill Francis Mott

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie…

— Joseph Joubert

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking…

— Theodore Roosevelt

As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are…

— Isabel Allende

...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break…

— Robert Penn Warren

We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal…

— Peter London

You have to watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox and then the local news and then Al Jazeera. The truth is somewhere in the…

— Eddie Griffin

O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In…

— William Shakespeare

My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into…

— June Jordan

I am not ignorant of what is said of my Lord in the Psalm: "You destroy those who speak a lie." And…

— Saint Patrick

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

— Joseph Sobran

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

— Leonidas I

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

— Marcus Aurelius

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

— Kurt Vonnegut

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

— Jimmy Buffett

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

— Charles de Lint

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

— Anonymous

Love me, even if it's a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye

— Faraaz Kazi

Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.

— Alexander Cannon

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

— Martha MacIsaac

I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.

— Andy Hallett

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

— Rosemary Mahoney

Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead.

— Thomas Haden Church

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

— Anton Chekhov

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.

— Robert Kane Pappas

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

— Charlotte Bronte