Lying Quotes

8656 quotes by 4266 authors

Let sleeping dogs lie. — Robert Walpole
He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying. — Michel de Montaigne
Only lies and evil come from letting people off. — Iris Murdoch
While we lie tumbling in the hay. — William Shakespeare
If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap… — Thomas Jefferson
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn… — Philip Roth
They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really… — Anne Lamott
In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts. — Michael Ondaatje
Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet. — George Washington
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise. — Jefferson Davis
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in… — Belle Boyd
Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In… — Louis Simpson
"Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of the world's oil… — Dick Cheney
Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that. — William Shakespeare
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him! — William Shakespeare
Ok, look. I'm honest. Girl I can't lie I miss you. You and the music were the only things that I'd commit to — Drake
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my… — John Green
Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice… — James J. Kilpatrick
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell
The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling. — Elizabeth Bowen

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