Quotes About Someone Lying

#1. Don't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a coffin as an absolutely lovely piece of furniture, even when it's empty, and if there's someone lying in it, it's really quite sublime in my eyes.

Thomas Mann

#2. I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.

Edmund Hillary

#3. He continued to lie there, like someone lying awake at four o'clock in the morning, unable to put his mind to rest, but unable to find anything to do with it.

Douglas Adams

#4. If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as a warrior, that's just his thing.

Antoine Fuqua

#5. When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your expense.

Gary Hopkins

#6. He felt rather like someone lying in a bath after all the water has run out, witless, almost dead.

Malcolm Lowry

#7. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone. Lying

Margaret Atwood

#8. If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.

Derek R. Audette

#9. Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.

Jude Watson

#10. I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.

Robert Breault

#11. Just so you know," I begin, "when they say 'Once upon a time' ... they're lying. It's not once upon a time. It's not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

Jodi Picoult

#12. One of the cardinal rules of lying is to never, if it can be prevented, involve someone else in your story, because you can't control them. Which is why I want to punch myself when the lie that falls from my lips is, To hang out with Wesley.

Victoria Schwab

#13. I remember someone said to me, "Never stand up when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down, never lie down when you can be asleep." Those are bits of advice that I haven't taken, really. I've done the opposite of them, but they have stayed with me.

Michael Sheen

#14. That morning, lying with the woman I loved, a silent promise was formed in my head. I was going to be a better man for her, someone she deserved. No more flying off the handle. No more temper tantrums, or violent outbursts.

Jamie McGuire

#15. And a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

C.S. Lewis

#16. As soon as I looked at Alphonse's face, I knew that he was dead. I had the strange feeling that I was dead myself. It felt as if I were lying at the bottom of a grave and earth was being thrown on me. When death takes someone you know, he holds you and whispers all his secrets in your ear.

Heather O'Neill

#17. 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

#18. Learning what the world is like; learning what mankind is like - these are hindered if students lie to another, or steal, or claim something is the fruit of their labors when it really is someone else's.

Kenneth G. Elzinga

#19. Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Miguel Ruiz

#20. Sometimes a policeman must confront people about lying. No one likes to be called a liar. But it is what it is! A fact is a fact! If someone is a liar, put them on notice. You should not be punished for doing the right thing. It is the job of a good investigator to get the truth.

C. Snyder

#21. Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

B.B. King

#22. If Your church says they want revival, check out their midweek prayer service. Someone may be lying

Joe Joe Dawson

#23. So that you don't forget the world isn't black or white," he said. "It's grey and someone tells you otherwise, they're lying".

Chloe Neill

#24. Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#25. If someone says that they saw a Sasquatch, they're either lying or they are stupid! Now stop lying about the Jewpacabra before stupid people start believing you!

Kyle

#26. A habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night ... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.

Toni Morrison

#27. Although the fact that someone was lying face-down in the street gutter and leaking blood into it did detract somewhat from the otherwise pleasant scene of life flowing through the less salubrious arteries of Crath City.

Mark Lawrence

#28. I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

Johnny Carson

#29. He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

Pete Hamill

#30. If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.

Giulio Andreotti

#31. 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.

Mike Stackpole

#32. You can always tell when someone's lying to you, because they're male ...

Caroline Rhea

#33. Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'

Michael Douglas

#34. I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

Rita Moreno

#35. Secrets are my profession. I know them inside and out. What separates me from someone I'm lying to isn't the lie. It's that I know I'm lying. It's a pane of glass---they can't see it, but I don't forget it's there.

Rose Lerner

#36. Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky
I wonder if
Someone in the heavens looking back down on me
I'll never know
So much space to believe

Dave Matthews

#37. It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

#38. When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

Mark McKinnon

#39. Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout New York and reached all the way down to Martinique where I was a guest Professor? The lie was circulated by people who don't read my books.

Ishmael Reed

#40. I was good at fabricating the truth when necessary to protect someone, even myself.

Matt Abrams

#41. For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.

Milan Kundera

#42. If someone comes into your house and does fked-up things to your kids and your wife, you're going to be capable of things you never imagined. Because it's in there. It might be lying dormant, but it's there.

Ronald Perelman

#43. Hold everything. I missed a four-way chick fight. Then I find out someone's been nibbling." William's attention shifted to Olivia, who was still lying on the floor. "Please tell me our sweet little angel is the biter. It'll make me want her ever so much more.

Gena Showalter

#44. When you reject the genuine, you are wide open for the spurious. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that when someone rejects the love of the truth that they might be saved, they will believe the big lie.

J. Vernon McGee

#45. I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.

Michael Musto

#46. If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

Jennifer Morrison

#47. Love spills out of these people. That's what I want. Settling for anything less is a lie.

Katherine Reay

#48. Lying is about controlling someone else's reality, hoping that what they don't know won't hurt you.

Neil Strauss

#49. He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Walter Benjamin

#50. Because the truth is, I wouldn't care if she lied to me, except for the fact that I love her. And once you love someone, you can't really put up with them lying to you. It just doesn't work. It makes things into a big mess.

Lauren Barnholdt

#51. There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that's how she is stuck in my mind forever.
We are two explorers in the dark. Mapless and hopeless. Alone together.

Pete Wentz

#52. It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

Paul Strand

#53. You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.

David Hayden

#54. There are a hundred pathways to Om. Unfortunately, I sometimes think someone left a rake lying across a lot of them.

Terry Pratchett

#55. If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt
to tell you the truth.

Marshall Sylver

#56. If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours.

Traci Chee

#57. QUOTES BOUQUET: Hurting Someone With The Truth Is Better Than Making Them Happy With The Lie.

Adnan

#58. And so, perhaps, when I say I long to be a pane of glass, I am lying. I long for partial obscurity at the same time that I long for someone to know me.

Meg Rosoff

#59. Falling out of love with someone you still like feels exactly like lying in a warm bed and hearing the alarm clock.

No matter how good you feel right now, you know it's time to go.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#60. Tragic tribute to the woman lying where we left her, with my arrow still in her heart. Someone has redone her makeup for the cameras. The

Suzanne Collins

#61. I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.

Emily Yoffe

#62. Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.

Rose Macaulay

#63. All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.

Dogen

#64. Too often we compare our weaknesses with other people's strengths only to find ourselves coming up short." We compare our worst to someone else's best which sets us up to sound like failures. Essentially, we begin lying to ourselves.

Ruth Schwenk

#65. I'm lying. I don't just need someone like you. I need you.

Sophie Kinsella

#66. Opportunities are made, they do not just lie around waiting for someone to grab them.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#67. If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you.

John Patrick Hickey

#68. The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

J.K. Rowling

#69. The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

John Baldoni

#70. Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.

Summer Glau

#71. When someone discovers something in their lives that really interests them, then they should be content with doing that - without having to go and lie on a beach once a year.

Bernd Becher

#72. I won't lie to you - it's better to have someone to help you. I need it.

Gael Monfils

#73. If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

Barbara Mertz

#74. I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.

Linda Sue Park

#75. If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

Claude Lelouch

#76. Now, listen Tyler,' Lara said, feeling a little impatient. She rather liked a cuddle after sex, and a bit of kissing. But a guilt trip was absolutely unacceptable, even if they were lying naked on someone else's kitchen table.

Lola Salt

#77. I hate that question, "Are you okay?" It's like asking someone if they think you look fat. You're almost guaranteed to get a lie.

Hilary T. Smith

#78. The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked
'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?'
The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#79. Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

#80. If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

E. Lockhart

#81. I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

Clark Gable

#82. No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.

Paulo Coelho

#83. The point, dear Davis, is that sometimes what you want is nothing more than to put your name beside someone else's, someone whom you love. Stretch your name out alongside theirs as though it was you, lying next to them.

Helen Humphreys

#84. It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone else's behavior.

Debbie Ford

#85. He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?

Donna Lynn Hope

#86. Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

Lenny Bruce

#87. Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

Dustin Hoffman

#88. Are you okay?" someone asked.
"I'm fine," I snapped, turning to face Jayden Griffin.
"I have to admit, you're getting better at lying, Tess Embers," he said quietly. "However, I know you're not okay.

Embee

#89. The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

Carl Sagan

#90. To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

Manti Te'o

#91. We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He didn't just try to blame someone else.

Mark Foley

#92. Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Chuck Klosterman

#93. I'd die for him! And he would. Say the word, there's Tate Walker, lying down in traffic and throwing his worthless life away so someone as good as Brian could cross the street.

Amy Lane

#94. If someone's lying, are their pants really on fire

Jerry Seinfeld

#95. If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

Plotinus

#96. One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

Charles-Louis Philippe

#97. The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story

Rebecca Makkai

#98. Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

Katharine Hepburn

#99. I wish someone would give my heart a polygraph; it keeps lying and flipping and changing its mind.

Jasmine Warga

#100. Cheaters often accuse you of cheating. Liars often accuse you of lying. Insecure people often crumble your security. Behavior speaks ... How someone treats you may have nothing to do with you; but can be a reflection of who they are.

Steve Maraboli