Lying Quotes

8656 Lying quotes by 4266 unique authors

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from. — Emily Post
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie. — Juvenal
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had… — Bill Cosby
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to… — Thomas Carlyle
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. — John Calvin
The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that… — Ravi Zacharias
...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We… — Anthony de Mello
Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency. — Adolf Hitler
I have a lot on my plate. I'm not going to lie about it, I'm tired. I'm really tired but I'm also very happy with… — Victoria Beckham
In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints. — Paulo Coelho
You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was… — Byron Katie
Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act. — Leo Buscaglia
Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie? — Byron Katie
The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it. — Thomas A. Edison
So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the… — Charles Dickens
Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign. — William J. Clinton
The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now… — Anthony de Mello
The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed… — Unknown Author
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that… — Eleanor Roosevelt
To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered… — George Santayana
It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next… — Sydney Brenner
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the… — Ernst Haeckel
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and… — Bertrand Russell
I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here. — Johannes Kepler

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