Lying Quotes

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein

Feeling, Intuition, Order

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

Sleep, Wife, Humility

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie

Sleep, Worry, Lack

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wait, Secret, Curiosity

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Lie, Others, Lies

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle

Wisdom, Mean, Reason

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt

Truth, Liar, Trouble

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler

Best, Liar, Makes

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
Johnny Depp

Yourself, Play, Acting

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Experience, Long, Enough

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Plato

Good, Home, Lie

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
John Ruskin

Words, Deception, Essence

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings

Truth, Tell, Addicted

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Truth, Happy, Two

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Redd Foxx

Health, Stupid, Nothing

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle

Done, Thought, Books

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
John Cusack

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody Allen

Done, Down, Few

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
Marcus Garvey

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Epicurus

Fear, Rich, Free

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Respect, Ambition, Secret

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

Down, Before, Around

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry S. Truman

Time, Good, Truth

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose Bierce

Pretty, Lies, Heaven

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

Loyalty, Down, Before

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
Epictetus

Tell, Easy, Show

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
Tim Allen

Good, Men, Positive

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody Allen

Death, Done, Down

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