lying quotes

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

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

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

You can’t just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can’t incite people to crime. There’s all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

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

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

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

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.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.