Lying Quotes - page 2

I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state. (William L. Shirer)
To overvalue something is a form of lying. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Though leaves are many, the root is one Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to. View quote
Penn Jillette
Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep The river glideth at his own sweet will Dear God the very houses seem asleep And all that mighty heart is lying still. View quote
William Wordsworth
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
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. View quote
Patrick Murray
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up... View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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. View quote
Hannah Arendt
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. (Hannah Arendt)
Diplomacy: Lying in state. View quote
Oliver Herford
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. View quote
Marcel Proust
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated. View quote
Carl Menger
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. View quote
Aristotle
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire. View quote
John Ralston Saul
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. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd. View quote
Penelope Lively
Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another? (Tom Perrotta)
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity. View quote
Alafair Burke
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! View quote
Daniel Steele
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. View quote
Neil LaBute
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. View quote
Donald Pleasence