Quotes on Lying

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

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.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

But for the unquiet heart and brain_x000D_ _x000D_ A use in measured language lies;_x000D_ _x000D_ The sad mechanic exercise_x000D_ _x000D_ Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.