Lying Quotes

8656 quotes by 4266 authors

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody… — Mark Twain
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul… — Mark Twain
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what… — George McGovern
A lie stands on one leg, truth on two. — Benjamin Franklin
I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of… — George MacDonald
I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily — Marguerite Yourcenar
I keep reading between the lies. — Goodman Ace
One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman. — Unknown Author
We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but… — Leo Buscaglia
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. — James A. Baldwin
I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me. — Ellen Glasgow
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to… — Aristotle
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from… — Seneca the Younger
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been… — Jack Welch
Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a… — Karl Marx
In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground… — Deepak Chopra
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value — Charles Dudley Warner
Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good… — Wilferd Peterson
You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of… — Shirley MacLaine

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