Lying Quotes

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.

How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again!

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.

The good of a book lies in its being read.

From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.