Lying Quotes

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

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

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

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

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.

I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.