Lying Quotes

Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.

You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

The solution of the problem lies in seeing it—in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution—just seeing what’s there. . . .

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

Hillary Clinton lies a lot. She has bad judgment. She created ISIS with her stupidity.

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.

When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.

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

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.

...visual truth lies in the structure of light.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.

The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source.

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

Library: A place where the dead lie.

Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.