Quotes with 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.
  • He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
  • Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.
  • In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
  • Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
  • I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
  • I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
  • I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
  • If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
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  • Hannah Arendt The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
    ― Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Jonathan Swift I have heard say that complimenting is lying.
    Source: Polite conversation
    ― Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Robert Benchley A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
    ― Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Mark Twain A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
    ― Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
    ― Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
    ― Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Robert Benchley A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
    ― Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    ― Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
    ― C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Campbell Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.
    ― Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • H.G. Wells Advertising is legalized lying.
    ― H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Thomas Carlyle All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
    Source: On Heroes 5
    ― Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Camilla Luddington Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
    ― Camilla Luddington
    British-American actress (1983 - )
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  • Joy Baluch Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
    ― Joy Baluch
    Australian politician (1932 - 2013)
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  • Benjamin Bratt Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
    ― Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Woody Allen Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
    ― Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Cate Campbell Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what I wanted.
    ― Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • V. N. Volosinov Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs there is no ideology.
    ― V. N. Volosinov
     
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  • Aristotle Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
    ― Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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