L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Lying is like running down a slope, it comes faster and easier with every next step… until you fall off the edge.”
Source: As Night Falls
“Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.”
“Lying is never the best option,but in some situations it is necessary.”
“Lying is not a betrayal when you have someone's best interest in your heart.”
“Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying?”
“Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.”
“Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.”
Source: Prejudices Fourth Series
“Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.”
“Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.”
“Lying is second nature and I do it very well. Titus Ray, Chapter 5”
Source: One Night in Tehran
“Lying is second nature to him... More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.”
“Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.”
Source: Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom
“Lying is the greatest of all sins.”
“Lying is the message. Its not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power of the truth itself.
"The Putin Paradigm," New York Review of Books”
“Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.”
Source: Steering the craft: exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew
“Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.”
Source: Closer
“Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.”
“Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.”
“Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.”
“Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.”
“Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.”
Source: Table talk
“Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying.”
Source: Kissing the Beehive
“Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone's feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love—the greatest of all virtues! So, my darling, I do wrong for you. I lie that you might feel loved.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.”
“Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.”
“Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.”
Source: Lead to Succeed: 10 Traits of Great Leadership in Business and Life
“Lying may be necessary, but should always be painful.”
Source: The English Utilitarians: Volume III
“Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)”
“Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I had I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops.”
“Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.”
“Lying on his bed feels like wiping my dirty peasant feet on the throne.”
Source: The Wicked King
“lying on marble
the lazy cat
gazes at dying stars”
“Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices.”
Source: The Girl Who Fell
“Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.”
“Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."”
“Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.”
Source: Fatality
“Lying on the ground, the instrument looks like a Venn diagram for toppings that belong on a pizza versus pineapple, two big separate circles. He lifts the whole thing up, minding the ceiling, sticks his head through the pineapple portion, and straightens the pizza portion to be a little flatter to the front.”
Source: Drummond: Learning to find himself in the music
“Lying on the metal table in front of me was a middle-aged man decked out in absolutely nothing at all. A dead man. Buck-ass naked with his little shriveled junk right there for everyone to see.”
Source: My Life as a White Trash Zombie
“Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky
I wonder if
Someone in the heavens looking back down on me
I'll never know
So much space to believe”
“Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street.”
“Lying once makes it easier to do it the next time and the time after that. Deceit has a funny way of propagating until it finally destroys the thing it was attempting to protect. Sam in Blackhorse Road A Novel.”
Source: Blackhorse Road: A novel of deception and forgiveness and love gained and lost
“Lying or been dishonest with yourself is equivalent to self witchcraft.”
Source: The Greatest Proposal
“Lying protects people sometimes.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“Lying rides upon debt's back.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.”
“Lying there, feeling safe in his tight embrace, a tear escaped my resolute eye and darkened his purple shirt. I usually do not cry when I am afraid, but invariably did when I felt safe and cocooned, like I felt in the confines of his strong, sure arms.”
Source: Dirty Martini
“Lying there in silence, Elim thought about how quickly a person’s fate could change, how precious life and health are. He had walked into this very room two days ago as a practicing physician, a man in control, with the power to heal, looking down on the sick American on the same bed where he himself now lay. He had never known just how different the world looked from the other side.
He vowed that if he became well, he would cherish every day. And although he had never wished ill health on another person, there and then he wondered if every physician might benefit from being sick—really sick—just once. He wondered if it would make them all care a little more, or work a little harder, to have been on the other side for a while—to have placed their life and livelihood in the hands of a stranger, even if for only a short period. He had considered himself a very conscientious physician before this, but he imagined that if he lived, he would be even more dedicated to his patients.
Staring at the ceiling, he was reminded of an old Indian proverb: A healthy person has a hundred wishes, but a sick person has only one.”
Source: Pandemic
“Lying there Ma said, 'You all listen now, this is a real lesson in life. Yes, we got stuck, but what'd we girls do? We made it fun, we laughed. That's what sisters and girlfriends are all about. Sticking together even in the mud, 'specially in mud.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing