Lying Quotes - page 36

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death. (Mitch Albom)
My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm a massive quiz show person. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity. View quote
George Sand
What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it. View quote
William Least Heat-Moon
I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens. View quote
Virginia Woolf
He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise. View quote
Aeschylus
As universal a practice as lying is, and as easy a one as it seems, I do not remember to have heard three good lies in all my conversation... View quote
Jonathan Swift
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. View quote
Penn Jillette
If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means. View quote
Penn Jillette
You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody. (Penn Jillette)
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order. View quote
Penn Jillette
Lying is a most disgraceful vice it first despises God, And then fears men. View quote
Plutarch
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTGalaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck. View quote
Douglas Adams
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies. View quote
Mel Gibson
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. View quote
Clint Eastwood
You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body. View quote
Jean Reno
This was no more cynical than most lying lozenge-pushers, but when he thought it mattered, Rhoemetalces had been honest. We cannot have that. Rome is a complex, sophisticated society. Truth is distrusted as much as Greek philosophy. View quote
Lindsey Davis
Lying is not only excusable it is not only innocent it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne. (H. L. Mencken)
Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth. View quote
Tamora Pierce
Consider. One bullet in ten thousand kills a man. Ask. Was so much expenditure justified On the death of one so young and so silly Lying under the olive tree, O world, O death? View quote
Stephen Spender
... a metaphor... is like lying but more decorative. View quote
Terry Pratchett
If I hadn't been lying in a hole I'd dug with my hands and helmet, that shell would probably have finished me off. The hole was only six or eight inches deep, but that makes an awful lot of difference, and it looked like a canyon. View quote
James Jones