Home / Topics / Lying Quotes

Lying Quotes

Browse 12355 quotes about Lying.

Lying Quotes

“Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.”

People Believe Long Enough Truth Lying Freedom Knowledge Loud

Author:Adolf Hitler

“A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.”

“One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.”

World Enough Wisdom Spiritual Death Lying Hate Regret Gratitude Kissing Dear Determined Deathbed Persia I Am Determined

Author:Hafez

“If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.”

Ifs Want Believe Persons Enough Lying Politics Position Authority Ridiculous

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.”

Soul Enough Light Lying Night Heaven Black Memories Behinds Hell Sea Refuse Bitter My Soul Dawn Sand Consolation Heaven And Hell Enough Love

Author:Madison Cawein

“An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.”

Stills Enough Lying Found Interest Answers Effort Dull Obscure Intriguing

Book:The Structure of Appearance

Source: The Structure of Appearance

“Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.”

Made Enough Seems Form Lying Lost Left Lines Forever Imagine Bases Fundamentals Fishes Conservative Stupidity Mortals Fishing Wet Doomed Torment Left Out Hades

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.”

“None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.”

Firsts Kind Enough Lying Song Turns Nations Love Is Secret Cry India Singers First Love

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.”

Needs Humans Enough Reality Happiness Lying Stage Bears Spread Substance Over It Pits Earthquakes Scenery Blackness Chasms Human Happiness

Book:Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.”

Men Enough Lying Smart Tasks Blind Clever Rogues Sly

Book:The Threepenny Opera

Source: The Threepenny Opera

“My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.”

Heart Mean Enough Lying Wealth My Heart Lows Shots Conscience Envy Bliss Breasts Contempt Crowns

Book:The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull

Source: The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull

“Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.”

Believe Heart Enough Lying Forever Standing Uncertainty Good Enough Just Believe Standing Alone

Author:Mariah Carey

“And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.”

I Can Enough Lying Dies Laughing Atheism Proud Positive Atheism

Author:Phil Ochs

“Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.”

Enough Lying Found Perception Boredom Traveler

Book:Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

“This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not, merely by waking to the reality that is not words , that lies beyond the reach of words. If you are fortunate enough to be Awakened thus, you will know why the finest language is the one that is not spoken, the finest action is the one that is not done and the finest change is the one that is not willed.”

Ifs Knows Believe Mean Done Enough Reality Action Lying Language Effort Changed Fortunate Waking Transformed Finest Awakened

Book:One Minute Wisdom

Source: One Minute Wisdom

“Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.”

People Way Enough Moments Hands Lying Money Roots Fishes Soil Shakes Chickens Baskets Hacked Beets

Book:Tales of Neveryeon

Source: Tales of Neveryeon

“The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.”

Feels Long Stills I Can Enough Pain Lying Left Behinds Danger Promise Lifetime Stranger Far Away Left Behind

Author:Ben Harper

“I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.”

People Knows May Enough Would Be Lying Realizing Planets Skills Smart Female Tendencies Programmers Biased

Author:Erik Naggum

“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.”

“One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. You may think you are more talented then the next guy. Which is exactly what the next guy thinks as well. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself stand out. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths. Always remember that no matter how many times you get shot down, you will get smarter, better and you only have to be right once to be successful.”

People Thinking Way Wells May Matter Enough Problem Remember Lying Guy Next Successful Talent Shots Being Successful Smarter Standing Out

Author:Mark Cuban

“When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.”

Enough Lying Praying Bed Resorts

Author:Lana Del Rey

“if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.”

Ifs Men Hard Enough Lying Given Quality Youth Weakness Shining Drinking Credit Emptiness Host Frustrated Unfortunate Alcoholism Discreet

Book:Points of View

Source: Points of View

“all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.”

Believe Long Sometimes Enough Lying Mother Can Do Secret Behinds Majors Daughter Emergencies Aggravated

Author:Phyllis Bottome

“I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.”

Believe Enough Stories Lying I Believe Boring I Believe In Dull

Book:Blood Shot

Source: Blood Shot

“It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Enough Wanted Lying Asks Mines Fairs Twenties Asking Twenty One Tell Me The Truth

Book:The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences

Source: The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences

“When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human being and that the destiny of a preborn child lies with the private conscience of the mother, we are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is?”

People Ifs Humans Children Important Enough Law Lying Mother Human Beings Behinds Destiny Rights Wall Conscience Fundamentals Pregnancy Abdomen

Author:Bob Dornan

“It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.”

Knows World Enough Form Lying Excellent Exception Conducting Deviate

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life is fact and no explanation is necessary or pertinent. To explain is to apologize, and why should we apologize for living? To live—is that not enough? Let us then live, let us affirm! Herein lies Zen in all its purity and in all its nudity as well.”

Life Should Wells Kind Reason Enough Facts Life Is Lying Explanation Purity Apologizing Imitation Repetition Nudity Pertinent

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“Had He not emerged from the tomb all our hopes, all our salvation would be lying dead with Him unto this day. But as we see Him issue from the grave we see ourselves issue with Him in newness of life. Now we know that His shoulders were strong enough to bear the burden that was laid upon them, and that He is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God through Him. The resurrection of Christ is thus the indispensable evidence of His completed work, His accomplished redemption.”

“Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don't kid yourself that they are.”

Ifs Men Enough Feelings Kids Romance Lying Passion Love Is Love You Behavior Active Our Relationship Verbs Nouns Lying Men Behaving Badly

Author:Susan Forward

“One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself standout. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths.”

People Way Enough Problem Lying Talent

Author:Mark Cuban

“Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle.Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but always gave her a heightened, goddesslike appearance. Her words could be banal enough, but were spoken so sweetly that listeners would find themselves remembering not what she said but how she said it.”

“Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve most of the problems, personal as well as the world problems. If the life approach is simple one need not lie so frequently, nor quarrel nor steal, nor envy, anger, abuse, kill. Everyone will have enough and plenty so need not hoard, speculate, gamble, hate. When character is beautiful, you are beautiful. That is the beauty of simplicity.”