Top 100 Lie Lying Quotes
#1. It was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.
John Connolly
#2. I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. We also hate lying because it is more than just fibbing, it is a personal slight. It is the liar's way of saying, "I don't respect you." That is precisely what we tell God when we lie. Lying is our special way of saying to God, "I hate the truth. I hate you.
Todd Friel
#4. Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life.
Norman Vincent Peale
#5. There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
Jim Clifton
#6. Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away.
Johan Oscar Smith
#7. Wrestling is a fraternity, and the boys will work their butts off for you as long as you respect them and don't lie. You can't anyone walk all over you or everybody will walk all over you.
Randy Savage
#8. I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.
Abraham Pais
#9. A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.
William Warburton
#10. The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism is hostile to religion is a lie.
Adolf Hitler
#11. Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.
Gautama Buddha
#12. I have no reason to lie and every reason not to. If I do lie, I will be prosecuted.
Jim Lehrer
#13. Never tell a lie-except for practice.
Mark Twain
#15. Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.
Kevin Drum
#16. A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide.
Richard Quest
#17. Oh for 'Shael's sweet sake, girl, you think you can rule an empire without lying? You think your father didn't lie? Or his father? Or any of your goldy-eyed great-great-founders of Annur? It's built into the job. Bakers have flour, fishermen have nets, and leaders have lies.
Brian Staveley
#18. I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.
Mike Huckabee
#19. Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper.
Dana Gould
#20. If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Angela Thirkell
#21. Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#22. A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.
Bertrand Russell
#23. Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.
Mickey Rourke
#24. Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do,
Tim Waterstone
#25. I wanna lie to you sometimes ... but I can't.
I wanna tell you that it's all good ... but it ain't.
Cee Lo Green
#26. The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective.
Leonard Horowitz
#27. There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.
John Brown
#28. To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.
Sarah Lewis
#29. I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so.
James Purdy
#30. They never tell a lie, not a small fabrication, not a partial truth, nor any gross unreal statement. No lies at all, so they have nothing to hide. They are a group of people who are not afraid to have their minds open.
Marlo Morgan
#31. We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Plutarch
#33. There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.
Michael C. Hall
#34. The expression working like a dog dates back to a time in America when men would rise early, then lie around all day and lick their balls.
Dana Gould
#35. Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it ... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.
E.B. White
#36. It is impossible for the mind to remain undisturbed by thoughts, but anyone serious about the matter can certainly permit them entry or drive them away, and although their origin does not lie entirely under our control we can choose to approve of them and to adopt them.
John Cassian
#37. There are worse things than a lie ... I have found ... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
Anthony Trollope
#38. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
Margaret Atwood
#39. We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people.
Brad Blanton
#40. When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.
Eric Hoffer
#41. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "No lie will last forever." We have to work at removing lies from our own hearts. And on the national level, we do this not because we blame our country, but because we love it.
Marianne Williamson
#42. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.
Denis Waitley
#43. No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.
Rex Stout
#44. Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.
Bertrand Piccard
#45. The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.
Thomas Southerne
#46. When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.
Peggy Noonan
#48. Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone's feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love - the greatest of all virtues! So, my darling, I do wrong for you. I lie that you might feel loved.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#50. Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
William Cowper
#51. Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.
Emily James Smith Putnam
#53. Remember what I said when I led to Omar and the queen?" I bobbed my head, unable to look away from his jewel-like eyed, shining in the darkness...so much like Chorda's. "That was the lie. Good-bye, Lane," he said and then crept into the darkness.
Kat Falls
#55. I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true ... what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
Brian Eno
#56. The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
John Calvin
#57. There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
Juvenal
#58. Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff
Adrian Mitchell
#59. A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
Albert Camus
#60. The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.
Tommy Chong
#61. It rolls in grandeur lone
The stream of Time;
And on its shores lie strown
The wrecks of every clime.
Harvey Rice
#62. I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried.
Simona Panova
#63. Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.
William J. Clinton
#67. I've been through hell. It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me.
Elin Nordegren
#68. Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
Alexander Pope
#69. If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
Walter Savage Landor
#70. The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.
Keith Haring
#71. You aren't staying in heaven because you still need to purify the mind. Your faith is powerful, but it is invested in what you believe you are, and most of what you believe about yourself is a lie.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#72. In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.
Barack Obama
#73. Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.
Henry David Thoreau
#74. Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.
Virginia Woolf
#75. We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
Bill Moyers
#76. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
Freya Stark
#77. You called me on the phone, saying you were alone,
But that's a lie because I heard your moms breathing on the phone.
And if you really like me, let your moms know
She should mind her business ... before I let go.
K-Solo
#78. I lie about lying, which means I can lie
Alex
#79. Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
Lenny Bruce
#80. When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
Gautama Buddha
#81. Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.
Joyce Meyer
#83. I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the
magical place that it is.
Tim Cook
#84. Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
Ai Weiwei
#85. First one tells a lie; then one believes it; then one becomes it.
Marty Rubin
#86. He is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way.
Champfleury
#87. Gashed with honourable scars,Low in Glory's lap they lie;Though they fell, they fell like stars,Streaming splendour through the sky.
James Montgomery
#88. Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.
George Farquhar
#89. You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.
Barry Hannah
#90. To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.
John Donne
#91. Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
Billy Joel
#92. Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?
Charles Ives
#93. There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.
T.C. Boyle
#94. There are times when people that you put in those positions make mistakes, they disappoint you, you lose their - you lose your confidence in them, or they lie to you. And when you find that out, the test of leadership is what do you do.
Chris Christie
#95. A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.
Jodi Picoult
#96. I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.
B.F. Skinner
#97. Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.
John Berryman
#98. When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.
Carol Leifer
#99. The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.
Winston Churchill
#100. How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind
and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.
William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling
