Lie Quotes

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

I can't lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help.

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

A lot of people are tired around here, but I'm not sure they're ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.