Quotes About Lying

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.

There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.

I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.

Well." Wolfe was judicious. "You were not under oath. The police have been lied to informally many times by many people, including me. The right to lie in the service of your own interests is highly valued and frequently exercised.

Wolfe has taught me that one of the most important requirements for successful lying is relaxed vocal cords and throat muscles; otherwise you are forced to put on extra pressure to push the lie through, and the result is that you talk faster and raise the pitch and the blood shows in your face.

Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain. Popular people, well, they're just the best liars.

Annabeth]I might have a plan. It'll be your turn to keep Serapis distracted.' Sadie frowned. 'Did I mention I'm out of magic?' 'That's okay,' Annabeth said. 'How are you at bluffing, lying and trash-talking?' Sadie raised an eyebrow. 'I've been told those are my most attractive qualities.' 'Excellent,' Annabeth said. 'Then it's time I taught you some Greek.

His left eyebrow crept higher and higher as I told him the strange bits like the glowing letters and serpent staff. Well, Sadie, Inspector Williams said. You've got quite an imagination. I'm not lying, Inspector. And I think your eyebrow is trying to escape. He tried to look at his own eyebrows, then scowled.

He told me he wouldn't hurt... Charlie. He lied to me.

Lying came easily to Niven, he thought of it as a means of protecting the truth.

You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.

I hate ingratitude more in a manThan lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness,Or any taint of vice whose strong corruptionInhabits our frail blood.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

You lie in your throat.

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will!Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Substance abusers lie about everything, and usually do an awesome job of it." Stephen King once wrote. "It's the liar's disease." Nic once told me, quoting an AA platitude, "An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie about it. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it." Part of me is convinced that he actually believes that he will find it for you.

He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)

Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing

Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning

The subtext of every question is, Am I making progress by asking questions and trying to understand the answers? And the subtext of every answer is, Yes, you are going somewhere while sitting here talking or reading. This is progress. Be at peace. You are progressing and well-progressed. That's the obvious lie we want to hear and those who tell it most convincingly are the most respected and revered and sought after.

Woods was indulging in personal obsessions like never before, forcing him into an exhausting game of lying and covering up more and more to maintain his wholesome image. Tiger, more than anyone realized at the time, was living a lie.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust, which is vain; and illusion, which is dangerous." He believed that after awhile everything would go away and everything would be fine. But he realized he was just lying to himself because everything kept getting worse.

Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.