Quotes on Lying

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips.

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.