Lying Quotes

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
Peter Singer

May, Against, Exercise

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
Ben Stein

Love, Bed, Listening

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
Dick Gregory

History, Black, Made

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Clare Boothe Luce

Ego, Creative, Social

Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich

Silence, Done, Words

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg

Time, Poetry, Thinking

At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.
Eric McCormack

Funny, Great, Home

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
Philip Pullman

Music, Writing, Silence

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
Dean Koontz

Once, Water, Becoming

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
Lech Walesa

Courage, Working, Sense

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
Gary Oldman

Almost, Terrible, Spy

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
Marlo Thomas

Life, Nature, Society

All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.
Christian Bale

Stupid, Old, Around

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.
Jim Davis

Mind, Play, Bed

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.
Jonathan Frid

Truth, Friend, Person

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

Someone, Dresses, Etiquette

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Sleep, Dogs, Reference

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
Neil LaBute

Women, Woman, Idea

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
Julie Burchill

Beauty, Best, Truth

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
Georg Brandes

Love, Humanity, Compassion

They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour.
Sloane Crosley

Waiting, Person, Control

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

Someone, Tell, Nose

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
Bob Woodward

Truth, Failure, System

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
Mac Davis

Rock, Around, Another

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.
Dave Eggers

Mean, Said, Books

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.
Sammy Hagar

Truth, Judge, Saying

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
Gary Numan

Saying, Point, Level

I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
Usain Bolt

Rather, Bed, Changing

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.
David Sedaris

Enjoy, Reading, Magazine

I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!
Danielle Steel

Children, Long, Enjoy

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