Lying Quotes · Page 90

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

— Alexander McCall Smith

What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

— Meat Loaf

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

— Michael Ventura

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

— Paul Robeson

We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.

— Thomas Huxley

I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Theres a different between lying to me, and protecting me.

— Myself

The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.

— Yehuda Levi

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times…

— William John Locke

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving,…

— Matthew Fox

The keys to the life of the heart lie in reflecting upon the Quran, being humble before Allah in secret, and leaving…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all…

— Paul Neilan

What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or…

— Anne Lamott

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life…

— Nick Nolte

“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying…

— Elena Gorokhova

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a…

— Francis Quarles

The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more…

— Michael Musto

No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the…

— Peter Kreeft

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in…

— Virginia Woolf

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a…

— Byron Katie

Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of…

— Albert Pike

There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'"…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

— Martin Firrell

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

— Garrison Keillor

“Any woman who says she does not want to guide the actions of the man she loves is, in my opinion, lying.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

— Alphonso Jackson

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

— Matthieu Ricard

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Lack of prayer says you've bought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control.

— LeCrae

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

— Marquis de Sade

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

— Grace Slick

Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

— Adolf Hitler

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

— Hugh Latimer

It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie

— Anthony Venn-Brown

Lie rather still because this is the first time I've used this equipment.

— Anonymous

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

— Michael Haneke

I'm almost able to be more honest by lying. By making everything up, I'm able to say what I really want to.

— James Acaster