Quotes on Lying

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. Lying is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends if indeed they are your friends. You must tell the people you work with. You must tell the people in the stores you shop in. Once they realize that we are indeed their children, that we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will be destroyed once and all. And once you do, you will feel so much better

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

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

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.