Quotes and Sayings About Lying
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Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.
-- Alexander Smith -
Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?
-- Alexander the Great -
I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.
-- Alexander Theroux -
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them.
-- Alexander Whyte -
i swore i could feel my lies slithering inside me like snakes, wrapping themselves around me and constricting. i felt they were squeezing the air from my lungs, tightening around my heart.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
She had the face of an angel I saw mirrors in her eyes We were the same, she and I Both bound by potent lies. In him I saw my future In him I saw my friend In him I saw my destiny Both my beginning and my end.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
-- Alexei Panshin -
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
-- Alfred Adler -
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
-- Alfred Adler -
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
-- Alfred Adler -
What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
-- Alfred de Vigny -
It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. You have to work hard at making an editorial picture. You need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose!
-- Alfred Noyes -
We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that all-enfolding sphere: And lo! it was not far, but near. We have found, O foolish-fond, The shore that has no shore beyond. Deep in every heart it lies With its untranscended skies; For what heaven should bend above Hearts that own the heaven of love?
-- Alfred Noyes -
Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose! Every song that the skylark sung Once, we thought, must come to a close: Now we know the spirit of song, Song that is merged in the chant of the whole, Hand in hand as we wander along, What should we doubt of the years that roll?
-- Alfred Noyes -
The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
-- Alfred Thayer Mahan -
No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
-- Algernon Blackwood -
Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.
-- Ali Larijani -
For me it's about the character, not as much about the genre of it [movie]. I'm excited that I get to work and play interesting characters and I'm not just the girl who gets to play the girlfriend or the wife. I get to play real women who have struggles and troubles and passions and that's always what I hope to do no matter what format that lies in.
-- Ali Larter
