Lying Quotes

Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.

I won't tolerate lying.

Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down!

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!