Lying Quotes

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

Mike Norton

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick

Jeanne Birdsall

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Oscar Wilde

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.

Steve Maraboli

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Leo Tolstoy

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

Cassandra Clare

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?

John Green

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Dorothy Allison

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

Mark Twain

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Oscar Wilde

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

John Green

There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.

Steve Maraboli

It's not lying when you do it to officers!

Terry Pratchett

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

C.S. Lewis