Lying Quotes
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Liars are always most disposed to swear.(Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)
Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. (Quote by - George Herbert)
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented. (Quote by - Lech Walesa)
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life. (Quote by - Black Elk)
There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind. (Quote by - Henry Reed)
Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around. (Quote by - Mac Davis)
Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger. (Quote by - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge)
I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me. (Quote by - James Green Somerville)
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. (Quote by - Neil LaBute)
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. (Quote by - William James)
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. (Quote by - Marlo Thomas)
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. (Quote by - June Jordan)
A liar should have a good memory. (Quote by - Quintilian)
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with. (Quote by - Al Franken)
Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him. (Quote by - Robert Creeley)
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. (Quote by - Mikhail Bakunin)
It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. (Quote by - "Homer Simpson)
Who lies for you will lie against you. (Quote by - Bosnian Proverb)
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. (Quote by - Lee Child)
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. (Quote by - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. (Quote by - Aristotle)
There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise. (Quote by - John Dryden)
The truth is more important than the facts. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning. (Quote by - Jeffrey Dean Morgan)
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? (Quote by - George Eliot)
Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes. (Quote by - Hillaire Belloc)
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected. (Quote by - John Bradshaw)
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. (Quote by - Allen Ginsberg)
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. (Quote by - Humphrey Carpenter)
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself. (Quote by - Black Elk)
Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie. (Quote by - Corneille)
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move. (Quote by - Max Lerner)
I don't take criticism lying down. (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you. (Quote by - Erno Rubik)
If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying. (Quote by - Aaron Neville)
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion. (Quote by - Georg Brandes)
A good memory is needed once we have lied.(Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night. (Quote by - Robin Hayes )
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. (Quote by - Mary Wilson Little )
I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified! (Quote by - Danielle Steel)
Lying is done with words and also with silence. (Quote by - Adrienne Rich)
But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie. (Quote by - Ludovico Ariosto)
Round numbers are always false. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now? (Quote by - Jim Capaldi)
It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked. (Quote by - Dennis Nilsen)
A half truth is a whole lie. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying. (Quote by - Jaroslav Seifert )
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort. (Quote by - Spiro T. Agnew )
After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records. (Quote by - Richard Reeves)
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. (Quote by - Ovid)
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)
If you're lying, you're lying. (Quote by - John C. Maxwell)
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
There's hostility to lying, and there should be. (Quote by - Bob Woodward)
A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. (Quote by - John Updike)
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits the all. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying. (Quote by - Cool Papa Bell)
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. (Quote by - Edgar J. Mohn)
I won't tolerate lying. (Quote by - Vito Fossella)
Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer. (Quote by - Sharon Osbourne)
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth? (Quote by - Patrick Sky)
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The truth needs so little rehearsal. (Quote by - Barbara Kingsolver)
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Splendidly mendacious.(Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . (Quote by - Woody Allen)
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. (Quote by - Bible)
Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other. (Quote by - O. Henry)
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. (Quote by - Aristotle)
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. (Quote by - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level. (Quote by - Gary Numan)
A liar is always lavish of oaths. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past. (Quote by - Monica Lewinsky)
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk. (Quote by - Patrick Murray)
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. (Quote by - James Hall)
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. (Quote by - Slovenian Proverb)
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them. (Quote by - Otto Hahn)
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
The lie is a condition of life. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State. (Quote by - John Burns)
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication. (Quote by - Matthew Lesko)
I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. (Quote by - Kevin Richardson)
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche )
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies. (Quote by - Mel Gibson)
I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally. (Quote by - Antoine Fuqua)
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. (Quote by - Steven Soderbergh)
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 this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says. (Quote by - Aristippus)
Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying. (Quote by - James Caan)
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. (Quote by - Tim Allen)
There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful. (Quote by - Will Arnett)
It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise. (Quote by - Peter Singer)
The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to. (Quote by - John Byng)
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. (Quote by - R.D. Laing)
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security. (Quote by - Samuel Rutherford)
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies. (Quote by - George Herbert)
But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation. (Quote by - Reggie White)
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people. (Quote by - Frank McKinney)
No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer. (Quote by - Dudley North)
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do. (Quote by - E.V. Lucas)
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. (Quote by - Alfred Lord Tennyson)
I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing. (Quote by - Benny Green)
At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there. (Quote by - Donald Pleasence)
We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it. (Quote by - Lyman Beecher)
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
All men are born truthful and die liars. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)
You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face, I now Say what I think. (Quote by - Pedro Calderon de la Barca)
There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne. (Quote by - Jeffrey Bernard)
Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. (Quote by - Smyrns of Chios)
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. (Quote by - Mary Wilson Little)
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people. (Quote by - Elijah Wood)
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. (Quote by - Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman)
I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood. (Quote by - Renee Zellweger)
The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one. (Quote by - Adolph Hitler)
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, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. (Quote by - Philip Pullman)
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know? (Quote by - Don Novello)
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections. (Quote by - Peter Schuyler)
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. (Quote by - Charles Edward Montagu)
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. (Quote by - Bram Stoker)
I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time. (Quote by - Bjork)
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. (Quote by - Redd Foxx)
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes. (Quote by - Kenneth Starr)
I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning. (Quote by - April Winchell)
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. (Quote by - Giacomo Casanova)
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled. (Quote by - Pete Hamill)
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. (Quote by - Mark Twain, Following the Equator)
People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with. (Quote by - Michael Zaslow)
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true! (Quote by - Calista Flockhart)
I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose. (Quote by - Michael Musto)
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. (Quote by - F. M. Cornford)
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption. (Quote by - Anthony Zinni)
It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them. (Quote by - Sparky Anderson)
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a lot of explanations. (Quote by - Saki)
I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them. (Quote by - Augusten Burroughs)
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied. (Quote by - Jeff Buckley)
I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge. (Quote by - Sammy Hagar)
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies. (Quote by - Smyrns of Chios)
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. (Quote by - Roger Kahn)
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates. (Quote by - Curt Flood)
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. (Quote by - Plato)
Half the truth is often a great lie. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
When truth is divided, errors multiply. (Quote by - Eli Siegel, Damned Welcome)
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. (Quote by - William Blake)
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries. (Quote by - Richard Donner)
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known. (Quote by - Bob Woodward)
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. (Quote by - Epicurus)
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. (Quote by - Clare Boothe Luce)
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. (Quote by - L. Neil Smith)
For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now. (Quote by - John Ritter)
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest. (Quote by - Norman Douglas)
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell)
Advertising is legalized lying. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
Euphemism is a euphemism for lying. (Quote by - Bobbie Gentry)
I'm not too good at lying still in the sun. (Quote by - Vince McMahon)
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. (Quote by - Bill Copeland)
I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make, Why they lie also--under a mistake. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do. (Quote by - John Cusack)
When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. (Quote by - Lemuel K. Washburn)
With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back. (Quote by - Russian proverb)
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. (Quote by - William Shenstone)
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying. (Quote by - Michael Musto)
The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this. (Quote by - Barbara Olson)
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying. (Quote by - David Remnick)
And none speaks false, when there in none to hear. (Quote by - James Beattie)
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite. (Quote by - Chuck Klosterman)
I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. (Quote by - Dean Koontz)
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. (Quote by - Tad Williams)
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue. (Quote by - David Simon)
Lying can never save us from another lie. (Quote by - Vaclav Havel )
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox. (Quote by - Francois Truffaut)
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. (Quote by - Richard J. Needham)
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. (Quote by - Willem Dafoe)
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. (Quote by - James Cardinal Gibbons)
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act. (Quote by - Abraham Cahan)
Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. (Quote by - Mark Van Doren)
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. (Quote by - Jean Genet)
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. (Quote by - George Herbert)
There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food. (Quote by - John Harvey Kellogg)
