Lying Quotes - Page 153

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

Donald Trump bigotry, his bluster, his bullying, have become his campaign.

There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers only - and perhaps the indifferent ones - that photography can lie.

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.