Quotes on Lying

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Author: Spiro Agnew

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

Author: Samuel Butler

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

Author: James Caan

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.

Author: Dale Carnegie

Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.

Author: Robert Creeley

The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.

Author: Marton Csokas

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

Author: Puff Daddy

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

Author: Mac Davis

I won't tolerate lying.

Author: Vito Fossella

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.

Author: Bobbie Gentry

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

Author: Pete Hamill

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.

Author: Dean Koontz

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Author: Mary Little

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Author: Mary Little

If you're lying, you're lying.

Author: John Maxwell

I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

Author: Vince McMahon

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

Author: Dennis Miller

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

Author: Wilson Mizner

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

Author: Aaron Neville

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

Author: Gary Numan

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Author: Adrienne Rich

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.

Author: John Ritter

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

Author: Erno Rubik

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

Author: Samuel Rutherford

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

Author: Jaroslav Seifert

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Author: Steven Soderbergh

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Author: Susan Sontag

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Author: Susan Sontag

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

Author: Bob Woodward