Quotes about lying
lying long interesting
If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth. Joseph Goebbels
lying risk sticks
The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.
lying believe people
If you tell the same lie enough times, people will believe it; and the bigger the lie, the better.
lying weight triumph
There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.
lying thousand remains
A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth
lying soon-enough stories
It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person. Justin Cronin
lying writing use
Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use. Julianna Baggott
lying real giving
She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.
lying omission forget
Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.
lying thinking one-day-at-a-time
I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me. Julianne Hough
lying actors down-and
If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die? Juliana Hatfield
lying makeup age
With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway. Julianne Moore
lying party government
I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how lies were told, and rewritten, to seem to be true. I came up out of a tradition of radical journalism. Jules Feiffer
lying army giving
Unfortunately, my rivals are spreading all kinds of suspicions for political reasons that are absolutely not true. They've tried accusing me of agreeing to dismantle the army, of jeopardizing private property, of giving the pensions of policemen to the guerillas - all kinds of lies. What they want is for people to be afraid of peace. Juan Manuel Santos
lying land one-direction
...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there. Joshua Slocum
lying funny-business known
I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary. Josh Billings
lying fall men
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
lying moving blow
Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.
lying attention politics
If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.
lying father ideas
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.
lying exaggeration-is people
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
lying knowledge world
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes. Karl Jaspers
lying arise
The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise. Karl Barth
lying men doe
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
lying tools merit
Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime. Karl Kraus
lying hero people
The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.
lying imagination journalism
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
lying war believe
How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.
lying lasts mets
Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline. Julius Schwartz
lying opposites people
Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile. Joyce Giraud
lying fighting men
In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet, There is a new-made grave today, Built by never a spade nor pick, Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick. There lie many fighting men. Dead in their youthful prime. Joyce Kilmer
lying expression practice
It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression. Joyce Cary
lying block night
Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.