Lying Quotes · Page 86

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

— Stephen King

Here lies a man who was given a medal for killing two men, and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

— Leonard Matlovich

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

— C. S. Lewis

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.

— Simone Elkeles

So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes.

— Bobby Vee

“...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.

— Ambrose Bierce

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when…

— Walter Scott

Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the…

— Charles de Gaulle

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening…

— Philip Pullman

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one.…

— Haruki Murakami

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy,…

— Dorothee Solle

The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths…

— John C. Maxwell

Actually, you know who gave the shortest inauguration speech in history? George Washington. It was only like three minutes long. Well, sure.…

— Jay Leno

We know there's a clear gap in fairness. There just is in equity. In a lot of ways, economically, racially, blah, blah,…

— Michael Keaton

My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared…

— Diane Setterfield

It is impossible for the mind to remain undisturbed by thoughts, but anyone serious about the matter can certainly permit them entry…

— John Cassian

Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing.…

— Diet Eman

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The…

— Rachel Carson

The reward of running — of anything — lies within us … We focus on something external to motivate us, but we…

— Scott Jurek

Living a lie - pretending everything is fine when we are actually discontented - is hard work and, in the long run,…

— Kristiane Backer

Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not…

— J. Ruth Gendler

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

— Penelope Lively

No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.

— Andre Maurois

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

— Georg Cantor

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“You can never be true to others, if you keep on lying to yourself.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

Beauty lies within a person that is willing to do anything for their love, love is beauty within the heart

— Janel Parrish

If you tell yourself a lie long enough, you'll start to believe it.

— Tony Robbins

How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Lying to other people is cruel but lying to yourself is so much worse.

— Anonymous

Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.

— Mark Cuban

Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies.

— Romain Rolland

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

— Winston Churchill

People who say lying gets you in trouble are liars.. As far as I know.. An honest answer gets u in deep…

— SouL

The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

— Muhammad Ali

When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.

— Abbi Glines