Lying Quotes · Page 87

Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]

— George Herbert

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.

— Suzy Kassem

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

— Diane Duane

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

— Mark Twain

I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.

— Emily Yoffe

A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

— Anonymous

“If you ask for a memory and they tell you a story, they're lying”

— Sophie Hannah

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

— William Glasser

The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability…

— Adam Savage

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of…

— Gao Xingjian

Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed…

— William S. Burroughs

My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind…

— Ernest Holmes

To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the…

— Sathya Sai Baba

A woman who repeatedly asks a man she knows to be gay when he's going to get married and have children is…

— Mallory Ortberg

I love Westlife. I turn up the stereo and listen to the a capella version of 'Flying Without Wings'. Any man who…

— Gethin Jones

Fine, dandy, she thought. Then lose the shirt, peel off those leather pants, and lie down on my tile. We'll take turns…

— J.R. Ward

Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load…

— Abraham Cowley

People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a…

— Patrick Ness

There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that…

— Chad Kultgen

What you are is much greater than anything or anyone else you have ever yearned for. God is manifest in you in…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of…

— Matthew Arnold

Do you ever wonder what it's like to be so angry that you...And then something happens, and after that, everyone figures that's…

— Gary D. Schmidt

One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…

— Jared Diamond

What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but…

— Richard E. Byrd

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.

— Wilson Mizner

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

— Marguerite Yourcenar

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

— Chris Hedges

When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.

— Mark Mirabello

I just broke up with my girlfriend because I caught her lying. Under another man.

— Doug Benson

When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives.

— Paul Gerhardt

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

— Roger Ascham

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

— Ai Weiwei

Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

— Alexander Smith

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

— William S. Paley

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

— Michel de Montaigne

The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

— Daniel Baldwin

I'm your only one... but what you call monogamy is lying to everyone.

— Amel Larrieux

Even if it's a lie, even if it's a dream, please turn to me.

— Koushun Takami

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

— Chogyam Trungpa

And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.

— Kathryn Stockett