Lying Quotes · Page 93

I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not. -Lavi

— Katsura Hoshino

“The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.”

— Jennifer Crusie

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

— Shane McCrae

“Do you think I'm lying to you?" I asked. "No, I think you're lying to you. I'm just in the way.”

— Marshall Thornton

If you focus on what you left behind, you'll never be able to see what lies ahead.

— Anonymous

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.

— Nick Vujicic

I don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.

— Sean Penn

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like…

— William Shakespeare

The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly…

— Winfield Scott

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

— Margaret Junkin Preston

Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet…

— Mina Loy

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb…

— James Russell Lowell

One time, this guy at this music festival would not let me off the hook that I was Percy Jackson. He was…

— Dylan Minnette

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

— Madame de Stael

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is…

— Wilfred Owen

We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep…

— Margaret Thatcher

For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead…

— Hilary of Poitiers

I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning…

— Fiona Apple

I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb…

— Sara Gruen

While the difference between a bad sermon and a good sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between good…

— Timothy Keller

Exaggerating?" Silk sounded shocked. "You don't mean to say that horses can actually lie, do you? Hettar shrugged. "Of course. They lie…

— David Eddings

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you…

— Stephen King

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.

— Agnes Macphail

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

— Jonathan Swift

I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.

— John McCain

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

— Elliott Smith

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

— John Lydon

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

— John Stuart Mill

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

— Erich Maria Remarque

The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.

— Laurieann Gibson

Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff

— Adrian Mitchell

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

— Wynn Bullock

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

— Neil Gaiman

If you love me show me if you don't then why are you here lying to me and yourself.

— Anonymous

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I…

— Jack Nicholson