Quotes of: Lying Keyword

For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.

A Simple Story

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

Ricky Jay

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

Monica Raymund

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

John Harvey Kellogg

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

Jessica Tandy

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

Francois Truffaut

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.

Billy Boyd

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

Clare Boothe Luce

I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.

J.M. August

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

David Remnick

You'll never know what psychopathic heights you're capable of, just lying there on the sofa

Josh Stern

Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing

Dean Cavanagh

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Jean Genet

I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.

Edward Burtynsky

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Hannah Arendt

[At a poker game] Dick Goodwin: I know you're lying. Charles Van Doren: Bluffing. The word is bluffing.

Quiz Show

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.

Dudley North

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Samuel Butler

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.

Abraham Cahan

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

Kristen Stewart

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Lin Yutang