Lying Quotes

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

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.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to leave that job.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

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?

They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.

At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

I don't take criticism lying down.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.

I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.

This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it.