Lies Lying Quotes

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance. ~ Mason Cooley

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies. ~ Suzy Kassem

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines. ~ Nenia Campbell

[N]o lie can live forever... ~ Bryan Stevenson

Reasons (for things or events) always contain lies. ~ Meir Ezra

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies. ~ Jonathan Stroud

People for the most part can smell lies. ~ Joe Rogan

Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison the minds of our citizens and compel them to believe in monstrous lies. ~ Filipp Golikov

The biggest lie: I wish. ~ Marty Rubin

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles. ~ Mark Gatiss

I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great. ~ Bryan Way

A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies. ~ Thomas Starr King

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies. ~ Bobby Jones

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. ~ Al Pacino

Through years of experience I've discovered that a liar will always look into his drink when telling a lie. But he doesn't have a drink in a cab, and even if he did I'd have no idea as to whether he were looking into it or not ~ Karl Wiggins

Let every
writer
tell his
own
lies
That's freedom
of the
press. ~ Norman Mailer

And when you've known me longer, you'll learn that I mean everything I say." "Even the lies?" "Especially the lies. ~ George R R Martin

Well the other thing about lying is that the liar is banking on two things when telling the lie. They are hoping that the person being lied to is gullible enough to believe, and it's also not even that they think they are gullible, it's that they know the person they are lying to well enough that they know the person won't push it any further because they know the person they are lying to wants to believe the lie. ~ Garry Crystal

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies. ~ Gerhard Schroder

I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies. ~ H.G.Wells

I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried. ~ Simona Panova

If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies. ~ William H. Ginsburg

We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies. ~ John Updike

Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself. ~ Paul Mooney

Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true. ~ Joyce Rachelle

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies. ~ Winston Churchill

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between. ~ Bill Gross

We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies ~ Dennis Kucinich

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway!
...
You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were. ~ Robert Walser

Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent. ~ Ellen P. Lacter

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. ~ Alexander Pope

It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies. ~ Cindy Sheehan

That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we simply do not have enough evidence, in my view, for any conclusion to be reached - that the presidents have been lying to us for all these years and that what we've been told was just a pack of lies. ~ Floyd Abrams

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies ... ~ Skylar Grey

We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies. ~ Peter Greenaway

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies. ~ Harlan Coben

If you have reason to suspect that a person is telling you a lie, look as though you believed every world he said. This will give him courage to go on; he will become vehement in his assertions, and in the end betray himself.

Again, if you perceive that a person is trying to conceal something from you, but with only partial success, look at though you did not believe him, this opposition on you part will provoke him into leading out his reserve of truth and bringing the whole force of it to bear upon your incredulity. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies. ~ David Bowie

Dandelions don't tell no lies ... ~ Mick Jagger

They'd rather hate you for the truth than love you for the lies. ~ Kirk Jones

Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies. ~ Ralph McGehee

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies ... ~ Joseph Conrad

Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies. ~ Neil Diamond

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man. ~ Criss Jami

The brain is unreliable. It relies on lies. ~ Brian Spellman

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies. ~ Suzy Kassem

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie. ~ Wendelin Van Draanen

There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul. ~ Jose N Harris

A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies. ~ Mary C. Ames

The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies. ~ Arthur Murray

You can't lie in a magical forest! It will ruin all the magic! ~ Michael Delaware

The WORST thing you can do is to slip in 'little' white lies just to save yourself from confrontations & emotional conversations. ~ Sijdah Hussain

The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries
the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses
especially the grander ones
have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies. ~ Christopher Isherwood

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction. ~ Saul Bellow

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. ~ William Shakespeare

I'd rather die riding 95 than live a life full of nothing but filthy lies. ~ Mitch Lucker

Lies build walls. Eventually the liar gets trapped inside these walls, and becomes unable to reason. Separation from reality is inevitable. ~ Ralph Cortes

The motive force of history is truth and not lies. ~ Leon Trotsky

The best lies to tell," said Jane, "are the ones people want to believe. ~ Jasper Fforde

Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies. ~ James Joyce

Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies. ~ William Shakespeare

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day. ~ Cesar Romero

We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses. ~ Brian Spellman

While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies. ~ Paul Claudel

The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies. ~ Dick Cheney

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become. ~ Mitch Albom

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. ~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies. ~ Sarah Josepha Hale

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth. ~ Orson Scott Card

Who lies for you will lie against you. ~ Bosnian Proverb

As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies. ~ Albert Einstein

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? ~ Miguel De Cervantes

Arabs and their allies are conducting a total war against Israel. A total war means a war of lies. The PA [Palestinian Authority] promotes lies; lying in Islam is permitted. ~ Manfred Gerstenfeld

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie. ~ Nancy Farmer

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies. ~ Craig Ferguson

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies. ~ Thomas Paine

Anything is better than lies and deceit! ~ Leo Tolstoy

We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions - by abandoning every value except the will to power - they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies. ~ George W. Bush

A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second. ~ Stanley Donen

My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me. ~ Olivia Sudjic

As I've always said: The future lies ahead. ~ Pat Paulsen

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth. ~ Elizabeth Wein

Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~ Ben Jonson

Tom, had you and I been 40 days with Moses, and beheld the great God, and even if God himself had tried to tell us that three was one ... and one equals three, you and I would never have believed it. We would never fall victims to such lies. ~ John Adams

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies. ~ Pete Hamill

He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are looking to the West because they know that's where success lies ~ Colin Powell

A liar is always lavish of oaths. ~ Pierre Corneille