Lying Quotes

Advertising is legalized lying. (H. G. Wells)
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. View quote
Robert Benchley
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
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. View quote
Harry S. Truman
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying. View quote
Bruce Lee
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. View quote
Samuel Johnson
DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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. (Tim Allen)
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. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Lying is done with words and also with silence. View quote
Adrienne Rich
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
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. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. View quote
Steven Soderbergh
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. View quote
Susan Sontag
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. View quote
Robert Benchley
I have, all my life long, been lying till noon yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. (Samuel Johnson)
And when I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me. View quote
Morrissey
Lying is the greatest of all sins. View quote
Alfred Nobel
The final revelation is that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Bob Woodward