Lying Quotes

8656 Lying quotes by 4266 unique authors

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. — James Russell Lowell
Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites,… — Ambrose Bierce
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. — H. L. Mencken
One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and… — Sylvia Plath
It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies… — Joyce Cary
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me,… — Learned Hand
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. — Douglas MacArthur
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows… — Mahatma Gandhi
A lie is an excuse guarded — Jonathan Swift
I'm not smart enough to lie — Ronald Reagan
Oh, what lies there are in kisses. — Heinrich Heine
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. — Eric Hoffer
A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it. — Paula Fox
The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it… — Ernest Hemingway
I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of… — Robert Wagner
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one. — Mark Twain
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes. — Carl Sandburg
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain. — Saadi
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. — Thomas Carlyle
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained… — Thomas Paine

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