Lying Quotes · Page 96

I'm a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, 'cause I remember it all too well

— Taylor Swift

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

— Pierre Corneille

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

— H. Rap Brown

Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.

— Christopher Noxon

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.

— Jonathan Stroud

Lie down and offer your throat. No, wait, that's how dogs submit. I know! Offer her you're wallet!" Oberon

— Kevin Hearne

If you are truthful you will survive. If you lie you shall perish.

— Khalid ibn al-Walid

In wartime we provide truth with a bodyguard of lies because it is so precious.

— Adolf Hitler

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.

— William Shakespeare

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility,…

— Anthony Zinni

Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle.…

— Oriana Fallaci

I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites,…

— William Hooper

The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall…

— Viola Meynell

The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and…

— Janet Reno

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it…

— Rex Stout

“Right to here,” I said, holding the can up to show her his length. Her eyes widened. “Shut up!” she said, “you're…

— Andrea Smith

It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to…

— Stefan Zweig

I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect…

— Stephen King

Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Do What?' 'Lie,' he said. 'Why do you fabricate these outlandish stories?' 'Well,' I wanted to say, 'there are those of us…

— Alan Bradley

In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her…

— Paulo Coelho

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"…they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice…

— Jodi Picoult

So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of…

— Bernard Baruch

The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may…

— Susan Sontag

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

— Francis Quarles

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I'm always nervous before a fight, any fighter that says they're not is lying.

— Dereck Chisora

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

— Anonymous

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

— Nido R Qubein

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

— Eric Ambler

“How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.”

— Craig Groeschel

I wish everyone knew what a lying piece of shit you are.

— Anonymous

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

— Will Rogers

I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?

— Gerard Way

You don't want to rely on an expert to tell you what lies ahead.

— Paul Saffo

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

— Homer

I'd be lying to you if I said I had not done some soul searching.

— Ted Waitt