Lying Quotes
Sad Quotes about Lying

It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw

I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne

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

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

If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
- Sheri Rosenthal

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

Advertising is legalized lying.
- H. G. Wells

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

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man.
I was lying to the press.
- Roger Kahn

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

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

A degree of lying - you know, white lies -
seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
- Matthew Lesko

Is it not rather what we expect in men,
that they should have numerous strands of experience
lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
- George Eliot

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

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life.
Every politician has lied about something because they
are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
- Peter Schuyler

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have
often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it
into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
- Giacomo Casanova

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

Lying can never save us from another lie.
- Vaclav Havel

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether
she's telling the truth or lying.
It meant making her partly sympathetic,
and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.
- Lee Child

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

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
- Samuel Butler

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it.
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his
superiority whenever we lie to him.
- Samuel Butler

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

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

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall.
People can develop dream recall skills,
such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.
- Henry Reed

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

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

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.
- James Caan

They used to say, 'If we find a good black player,
we'll sign him.' They was lying.
- Cool Papa Bell

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal -
falling like a cat,
lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
- Francois Truffaut

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

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar,
and if you're in television, you're lying because you're
just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.
- John Ritter

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

When lying, be emphatic and indignant,
thus behaving like your children.
- William Feather

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

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy,
though we were still lying to.
- John Byng

They told me I had been sick twelve days,
lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser,
who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man,
had brought me back to life.
- Black Elk

I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00
and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.
- April Winchell

Lying is like alcoholism.
You are always recovering.
- Steven Soderbergh

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important.
I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
- Bjork

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which
consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
- F. M. Cornford

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the
road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there
are skid marks around the skunk.
- Patrick Murray

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion.
The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a
butcher's stall passes as food.
- John Harvey Kellogg

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

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life,
few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity
to strive or even to hope,
by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
- Stephen Jay Gould

I won't tolerate lying.
- Vito Fossella

With Clinton, there's no question that I would have
made fun of his out-and-out lying.
But he's also a good friend.
- Chevy Chase

If you're lying, you're lying.
- John C. Maxwell

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think
about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
- Steven Morrissey

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

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
- Dennis Miller

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow,
I'd say you were lying.
- Aaron Neville

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing.
Nobody is lying.
It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.
- Erno Rubik

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.
- Bob Woodward

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
- Mary Wilson Little

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

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate
and brazen lying as the one that begins,
'Have you read - .'
- Wilson Mizner

Truth is a pain which will not stop.
And the truth of this world is to die.
You must choose: either dying or lying.
Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense,
a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
- Mikhail Bakunin

I looked below and saw my people there,
and all were well and happy except one,
and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
- Black Elk

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

I began to pray those same fervent prayers,
lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled
from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.
- James Green Somerville

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

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders,
until we remove private money from public campaigns,
lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.
- Peter Schuyler

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth;
for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look,
smile, or act.
- Abraham Cahan

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with
headphones on when I was four or five years old,
listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
- Kevin Richardson

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

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant,
driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck,
and doing commercials and documentaries.
- Richard Donner

I wouldn't abandon nobody.
I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.
- Puff Daddy

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people.
They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
- Augusten Burroughs

There is no detachment where there is no pain.
And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying
unless detachment is present too.
- Simone Weil