Lying Quotes

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

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

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

I've learned I'm not lying by not saying anything, so I just don't say it anymore.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.