Lying Quotes

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

All I want for christmas is your warmth, near the firing woods. Cuddling on the chair, swinging in merry times, forgetting our bad lies.

Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, – all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, – who is good? Not that men are ignorant, – what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

I never lie to my fans.