Top 94 Lying Words Quotes
#1. There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
Ellin Devis
#2. The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!
Hope Mirrlees
#3. But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
Marcel Proust
#4. In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.
Paulo Coelho
#5. The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words ... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
Freya Stark
#6. Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.
Julien Green
#7. The truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.
Storm Jameson
#8. Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
Deborah Smith
#9. I struggle to discover what these silent sons of mine want, but words have always failed me. They are sullen even as they tell me they are okay. I know they are lying but there is nothing I can do.
Jinat Rehana Begum
#10. Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away.
James J. Kilpatrick
#11. The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.
Eugene H. Peterson
#12. A person's words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.
Anuj
#13. It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.
Frank Smith
#14. I think, for some children, your skills don't lie in written words. A lot of school is based around written words and how good you are at spelling or reading. From a young age, if you're told you can't spell or read very well, you're made to feel a bit stupid.
Erin Richards
#15. In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.
Theodore Roosevelt
#16. Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
George Du Maurier
#17. One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. Jean Laffite was a sexy bad boy with a gentleman's manners and an air of barely suppressed danger. Every girl's secret dreamboat in other words. We always say we want a nice, hardworking, decent guy but we're lying to ourselves. - DJ Jaco
Suzanne Johnson
#19. If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.
I. F. Stone
#20. I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#21. It says somewhere - in the Book of Proverbs, I think - that lying lips are abomination to the Lord, but they that deal truly are his delight. I considered my words carefully before I spoke them.
Alan Bradley
#22. Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches.
Saint Francis De Sales
#23. Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.
Michel Faber
#24. Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.
David Sedaris
#25. Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up a new key, in the treatment of the ritual chant, and overcoming vocal difficulties that lie in the words rather than in the music.
Enrico Caruso
#26. The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#27. Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?
Cindy Sheehan
#28. The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.
Arthur W. Pink
#29. A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Thomas Huxley
#30. Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.
Halldor Laxness
#31. A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
E. M. Forster
#33. Something unfathomable lies behind every thought ... something for which there aren't any words.
Peter Weiss
#34. Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
Edward Abbey
#35. And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.
Ellen Hopkins
#36. The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.
Bienvenido Lumbera
#37. Lying here with him, I realize love is so much more than silly words or actions. It is all encompassing and unfathomable until experienced. It is darkness intertwined with light, good with evil.
Nancee Cain
#38. Prophets from Amos and Isaiah to Gandhi and King have shown how frequently compassion demands confrontation. Love without criticism is a kind of betrayal. Lying is done with silence as well as with words.
William Sloane Coffin
#39. If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.
Ben Weaver
#40. Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.
Albert Schweitzer
#41. Promise is a word like any other. Words can go in any direction. It's only the body that is incapable of lying.
Meg Howrey
#42. Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.
Stephen King
#43. I am pleased beyond words you aren't lying dead in a ditch somewhere.
Lyndsay Faye
#44. Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#45. As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.
Zach Condon
#46. Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one's words and one's soul.
Richard Flanagan
#48. To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement but self-ful lment. At the core of his identity ..lies nothing but unconditional love.
Terry Eagleton
#49. I cannot recall the words of my first poem but I remember a promise I made my pen never to leave it lying in somebody else's blood.
Audre Lorde
#50. Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.
Irving Howe
#51. We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie!
Jerry Brown
#52. I miss you because memory
is a kind editor.
The past is a long scroll and
in it is the story of us,
told with gentle metaphor, and
words that bring
you back and back, even as you
lie there, lying.
Corey Mesler
#53. I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?
Gerard Way
#54. Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.
Laozi
#55. The truth [always] lies in things that have no words.
Dennis Quaid
#56. The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.
Akhenaton
#57. There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
Juvenal
#58. To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.
Anna Pavlova
#59. Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.
Janet Frame
#60. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
James A. Baldwin
#61. Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.
Cynthia Voigt
#62. 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
#63. The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
John Ruskin
#64. Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.
Robert Creeley
#65. ... if you can't be happy then be quiet!" frm "Silent Joe," by T Jefferson Parker." Silence is another form of lying." frm "Attachment," by me. Take your pick ... words, "writing freezes speech," Chris Hedges. "Writing is thinking," me.
Mark Jabbour
#66. In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#67. I didn't want to be alone anymore," he whispers, lying back down on his side facing away from me.
I have no words.
Dannielle Wicks
#68. Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.
Sylvia Day
#69. What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
Berthold Auerbach
#70. False words do not bring forth fruit.
Sophocles
#71. Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
#72. Damn it, I'm angry now. I do believe life is loss, I do, but my suffering-to-words-ratio was out of control: lying around composing nothing but these - righteous arias, month after month, these tawdry special pleas.
Gwendoline Riley
#73. The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.
Matt Ridley
#74. I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#75. As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie
bullshit, in other words
because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation
a misrepresentation.
John C. Lilly
#76. A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.
Edward Young
#77. Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
#78. I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.
Hunter S. Thompson
#79. Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.
Aristotle.
#80. Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.
Nabeshima Naoshige
#81. She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#82. I am accountable for every lie that I tell, but I am also accountable for the effects of every harsh truth I deliver.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#83. You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.
Margaret Atwood
#84. The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.
Philippe Sollers
#85. All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#86. The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
Luc De Clapiers
#87. Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication
in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.
Rachel Cohn
#88. He finds the lying comes easy enough, of course. Words are just noises in a certain order, and he can use them any way he wishes. Pigs grunt, ducks quack, and men tell lies: that is how it generally goes.
Ian McGuire
#89. Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.
Joyce Rachelle
#90. I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words. The Nationalist party have given the country 25 years of lies, the Labour Party will build the country anew.
Joseph Muscat
#91. One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
Al David
#92. I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.
Pat Paulsen
#93. Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?
Jim Rohn
#94. I'm trying to focus, telling myself these are just empty words, but I'm lying. Because somehow, just reading these words is too much; and the thought of her in pain is causing me an unbearable amount of agony.
Tahereh Mafi
