Lying Quotes · Page 98

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

— Randy Pausch

No matter how hard you try to hide the truth. It eventually find its way out.

— Anonymous

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

— Isaac Watts

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.

— Pirjo Honkasalo

He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

— William Shakespeare

Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

— Jonathan Maberry

There are two things that you have to lie to get through. One is politics, and the other is marriage.

— Bill Maher

Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.

— Swami Vivekananda

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose…

— Wanda Landowska

When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a…

— Charles Hamilton Aide

I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and…

— Dudley Randall

Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is…

— Margaret Mead

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you…

— Mika Brzezinski

Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

— Ben Folds

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most…

— Anonymous

The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone who says they love you is the moment you…

— Anonymous

Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you,…

— Lionel Shriver

The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of…

— Rose Macaulay

Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I'll tell you what, [Hillary Clinton] is not making America safer by her actions and because as it relates to Benghazi, as…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

“In lying to others we end up lying to ourselves. We deny the importance of an event, or a person, and thus…

— Adrienne Rich

Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would…

— Arthur Helps

For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.”

— Olivia Sudjic

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

— Virginia Woolf

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

— Adolf Hitler

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

— Edward Britton

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

— Christine Feehan

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

— Eliot Spitzer

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

— E. M. Forster

Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of.

— Karen Walker

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

— Thornton Wilder

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

— Jonathan Swift

You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

— Barry Hannah

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

— Aleister Crowley

Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.

— Baltasar Gracian

I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.

— Michael Bloomberg

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

— Richard Pryor

“I'm with the federal government, Drummond, Trust me is another way of saying I'm lying.”

— Brian Haig