Quotes about lying
lying agents firsts
I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists. George Orwell
lying book thinking
Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what the truth is, but they can tell when someone is trying to lead them astray or sell them something shady. I think he had that ability to an amazing degree. I also think he thought, without saying it explicitly, that you can convince a crowd of something that's not true more easily than you can one person at a time.
lying writing political-language
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
lying cities police
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
lying there-is-hope 1984-movie
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
lying objectivity deceit
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
lying believe deceit
Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies. George R. R. Martin
lying bears
Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.
lying son likes
Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.
lying dark path
Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.
lying believe black-and-white
All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces. (a servant in the House of Black and White)
lying liars men
When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.
lying honest
Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.
lying mean known
...and when you’ve known me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies.
lying half half-truth
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
lying writing people
Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
lying eye heart
The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.
lying
You lie. Worse, you lie poorly.
lying faces looks
A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.
lying eye heart
The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.
lying
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
lying mean people
People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies. Jean Cocteau
lying history facts
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.
lying mean men
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
lying reality fables
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
lying judging people
Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people. George Carlin
lying heart promise
I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. Thats a lie. Gene Simmons
lying men want
Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories? Gail Parent
lying joy world
Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy. Frederick Buechner
lying enough-time time-left
Stop lying. There isn't enough time left. Frank Warren
lying long sun
All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more. Frank Sinatra
lying past should-have
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment. George Eliot
lying men should-have
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?