Lying Quotes

8656 Lying quotes by 4266 unique authors

It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and… — Laurie Halse Anderson
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and… — Stephen Crane
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over… — Simone de Beauvoir
That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice. — Malcolm X
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is… — George Soros
American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope. — Elena Kagan
Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as… — Napoleon Hill
MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION. — Napoleon Hill
Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know… — Napoleon Hill
It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony. — Jim Rohn
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films. — Lars von Trier
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth. — Ingmar Bergman
My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing — Philip Pullman
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music,… — Philip Pullman
The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second. — Brian De Palma
Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who… — Malala Yousafzai
I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in… — Swami Vivekananda
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of… — Margery Allingham
Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart. — Fiona Apple
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the… — Thomas Carlyle
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster
Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth. — Paul Watson
Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you. — Scott Westerfeld
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you,… — William Faulkner

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