Lying Quotes
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Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.
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For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.
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Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.
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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
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Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.
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How long a time lies in one little word?
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
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As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.
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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
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Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.
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He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
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I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.
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My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.
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If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey.
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As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.
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A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.
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Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
