“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
― Adrienne Rich
“Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Lying is the greatest of all sins.”
― Alfred Nobel
“One would be lying if one didn’t say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.”
― Andrew Lloyd Webber
“There’s hostility to lying, and there should be.”
― Bob Woodward
“Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.”
― Bobbie Gentry
“If you’re making everybody happy, you’re lying to somebody.”
― Brian Sandoval
“I don’t like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.”
― Carrie Preston
“Lying does exist in crazy forms.”
― Chris Pine
“Most people offer obvious telltale signs when they’re lying.”
― Christopher Voss
“Recruiters in our country are known for lying to people.”
― Cindy Sheehan
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.”
― Clare Boothe Luce
“There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.”
― Clint Eastwood
“It’s been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.”
― Damon Galgut
“I never read lying down.”
― Darryl Pinckney
“Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.”
― David Draiman
“Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.”
― Dennis Miller
“I’m not one for lying to children.”
― Diane Guerrero
“Anyone who says they don’t like to receive a gift is lying.”
― Dita Von Teese
“I’m not big on lying. I don’t like that at all.”
― Elizabeth Mitchell
“People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn’t.”
― Elliott Abrams
“Marvel’s very secretive, and I’m not hiding anything, I’m not lying; it’s just the way they are.”
― Elodie Yung
“We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.”
― Epictetus
“The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.”
― Gary Oldman
“Anyone would be lying if they said they didn’t get lonely at times.”
― George Clooney
“I’d be lying if I said, ‘No,’ to wanting a lot of kids.”
― Gisele Bundchen
“Advertising is legalized lying.”
― H. G. Wells
“It is 2017, and we are living in the golden age of lying.”
― Hasan Minhaj
“Anybody who says that favoritism doesn’t exist in Bollywood would be lying.”
― Huma Qureshi
“One would be lying if they say nepotism doesn’t exist.”
― Huma Qureshi
“Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.”
― Humphrey Carpenter
“As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.”
― Ivan Pavlov
“I’m not lying to myself like most people.”
― Jack Kevorkian
“As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.”
― Jesse Ball
“Lying is our stock-in-trade as social creatures.”
― Jesse Ball
“Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there’s no point in lying.”
― Jessica Walter
“If you’re lying, you’re lying.”
― John C. Maxwell
“The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.”
― John Ruskin
“Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.”
― Joseph B. Wirthlin
“I don’t like people lying; I like honesty.”
― Karan Patel
“If anybody says they’re not afraid of themselves, they’re lying!”
― Keala Settle
“I collected X-Men, Spider-Man, and Daredevil comics. I definitely had a few Captain America comics lying around in those protective plastic baggies.”
― Kenneth Choi
“When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.”
― Kevin Hart
“If I sit here and say I don’t agree with VAR, I’d be lying.”
― Kyle Walker
“North Korean defectors can usually tell when other defectors are lying about their past.”
― Lee Hyeon-seo
“I have aspirations to try and compete professionally. Any golfer that competes in tournaments would be lying if they said they didn’t.”
― Lucas Black
“In love, I’ve been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.”
― Luke James
“Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.”
― Martha MacIsaac
“The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.”
― Mason Cooley
“Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.”
― Mason Cooley
“There’s a difference between lying and not being straight.”
― Michael Finkel
“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”
― Michel de Montaigne
“Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I’ve been acting since I was about 7.”
― Miranda Rae Mayo
“Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it’s also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.”
― Monica Raymund
“I want money; I just don’t want that money lying around.”
― Nathan Kirsh
“Savasana is the easiest and most important yoga move because it’s so simple. Lying there is meditative.”
― Nina Dobrev
“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.”
― Ovid
“Lying is the rule, not the exception.”
― Pamela Meyer
“In the United States, journalists receive awards for lying for the government and for the corporations.”
― Paul Craig Roberts
“Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.”
― Penn Jillette
“Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.”
― Peter Landesman
“I’m either working or I’m lying in bed the entire day.”
― Petra Collins
“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.”
― Richard Stanley
“Fiction is just lying.”
― Rumaan Alam
“The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting – you have to remember a lot.”
― Rupert Everett
“I do all my thinking lying down.”
― Ruskin Bond
“I would be lying if I said Starz doesn’t have a reputation.”
― Sam Heughan
“I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.”
― Samuel Butler
“If anybody says their facelift doesn’t hurt, they’re lying. It was like I’d spent the night with an axe murderer.”
― Sharon Osbourne
“Consumers recognize, and don’t like, corporate lying.”
― Sheldon Whitehouse
“I can’t stand lying. I can’t stand liars.”
― Stephen A. Smith
“Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.”
― Steven Soderbergh
“Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.”
― Susan Sontag
“Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.”
― Susan Sontag
“All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”
― Thomas Carlyle
“It is that bizarre thing. If I had kids, I, of course, would tell them there’s Santa, but it’s also just an odd feeling to be blatantly lying to kids.”
― Tig Notaro
“I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.”
― Usain Bolt
“Lying can never save us from another lie.”
― Vaclav Havel
“I’m not too good at lying still in the sun.”
― Vince McMahon
“I won’t tolerate lying.”
― Vito Fossella
“I’m better off working as opposed to lying around.”
― Wayne Newton
“I would be lying if I told you that I hadn’t had aspirations to run for a statewide office.”
― Wendy Davis
“When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.”
― William Feather
“I don’t take criticism lying down.”
― William Westmoreland
“I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, ‘Have you read – .’”
― Wilson Mizner
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