I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
William Shakespeare
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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
Michel de Montaigne
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Michel de Montaigne
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody Allen
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Jean Genet
The Boeing Company wasn't lying down. We just allowed ourselves to step back from our customers too far.
Scott Carson
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Bergen Evans
They were just lying there, ... People were just passing by, looking at the bodies. Nobody was going to help us. They were just letting us die like flies.
Michael Morgan
We blues singers are condemned. But I let them know this: If what I'm singing sends me to hell, I don't know how to get to heaven because I ain't lying. It's in your heart, and it's what you feel.
Henry Townsend
I saw the children playing with a bag lying in front of a photography store and suddenly it exploded.
Ali Mahmud
He can't be believed. The truth is that he has an ability for lying.
Fernando Rospigliosi
I used to feed spiders in the hedgerow where my grandmother used to live. I used to spend hours just lying on the front lawn watching ants go by.
Nicholas Martin
I was disappointed in that, ... I'd be lying if I said no. I think that sometimes it is to be expected [but] when you have a track record in a city like I do here, I was disappointed.
Tommy Maddox
I'm suggesting to you (that) you are lying under oath.
John Agius
Frank is the biggest liar. If his lips are moving, he's lying.
John Clemens
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
Laurence Olivier, Sir
I was lying in bed one night and couldn't sleep, and it just dawned on me there wasn't one in here. I think it should be here.
Chris Drury
They're lying, just as they've lied about their kidnapping of President Aristide.
Ira Kurzban
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
They must understand that there is a seriousness to the event and a consequence to lying.
Brian Neary
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.
Judith Viorst
I'd be lying if I said I didn't think about it. I'd be lying if I said I sat on the bench, watching guys play, and felt [as much a] part of this.
Michael Olowokandi
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
Patrick Murray
Then I turned around. Twenty feet from me, was Martin lying down on the balcony.
Ozell Sutton
I don't think we're lying. I don't see where the lie is.
Colleen Dolan
Boiling too long has happened to anyone who has ever boiled sap, even professionals. Anyone who says he hasn't burnt the sap is lying.
John Snell
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
Susan Sontag
Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away.
George Lorimer
Because the three boys pointed their fingers at these two security guards, and they couldn't leave that out of the loop. There was no reason to believe the boys were lying.
Julia Renfro
He asked for an autograph, and the next thing he knew he was lying on the floor. He just wanted [Rhymes'] autograph. He didn't want his fingerprints on his face.
Bruce Regenstreich
And you know who lets them get away with lying? ... Baseball writers. Hardly any Hall of Fame voters have the (guts) to stand up and say, 'These guys cheated. I'm not voting them into the Hall of Fame.' .
Patrick Reilly
We like people to stay and try our beds as long as they can. How are you going to find a comfortable mattress without lying down?
Janet Moran
He was lying semiconscious at the bottom of a 40-foot pit.
Steve Willsey
I was lying 10th and had a 350foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: `How does this one break?' And my caddie said `Who cares?'
Jack Lemmon
Bart was, like a lot of people who were converted to fundamental evangelicalism, converted to the certainty of it all, of having all the answers. When he found out they were lying to him, he just didn't want anything to do with it.
Dale Martin
They said he saw a dollar bill lying on the ground.
John Thigpen
Give Duquesne credit. They only had eight scholarship guys and they came out extremely hard and they beat us. It wasn't like we were lying down.
John Giannini
I think the videotape impeaches her on that issue. I think, in fact, the videotape shows that she's lying.
Patrick Campanelli
The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.
Walter Raleigh, Sr.
He's a lying, thieving, two-faced murderous animal who wouldn't know the truth if it jumped up and bit him on the butt.
Jeffrey Lichtman
Lying can never save us from another lie.
Vaclav Havel
I didn't know what happened. I went into the bedroom and she was lying in blood.
Golam Maola
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Spiro T. Agnew
Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
Wilhelm Stekel
I don't expect you to have any leniency or even believe a word I say. I have to stop lying to myself.
Christopher Moore
What's the national security concern for lying about your child?
Mahir Sherif
He's been lying from the minute we started talking to him. Him leaving with the johnnie just added to the fact. We can't lock someone up for being shot.
Frank Pasquarello
Everybody can say it feels like home if they want, but they'd be lying. We just have to fight through it. It is not home and we know it's not home.
Jay Bellamy
If I were a thief, your belongings would be gone by now. Students leave all kinds of things lying around that are difficult and costly to replace.
Linda Hunt
You see that woman lying in the road as that 20-ton fire truck pulls up beside her?
Greg Roberts
Whenever my old girl would catch me with a new one, I'd tell her she was just a friend - but she was really a new honey. Lying just, I don't know. It seemed like the nicer way to go.
Jose Gutierrez
I'd be lying if I said it didn't affect me. I definitely felt a little uncomfortable.
Kyle Lohse
All those low-lying areas are just devastated.
Michael Brown
[Even so,] the jury's still out on the metrics, ... I'd be lying if I said I know what to measure to determine success.
Scott Deaver
It would be mainly just to clean up garbage that's lying around the area. The easiest thing is to start out small for now.
Melody Peckos
I do not imagine that there's any way she's lying. My experience with her is that she was always committed to excellence, and that means being as a person as well as an athlete. I would be amazed.
Laura Arnold
What happens now is that the reckoning begins. Two decades of concealing the truth and lying are coming to an end.
Jim Butler
We helped a few victims on the sand there on the beach and there were a few people lying ... on the tables which are out on the beach, dead.
Jason Childs
Clear the backyard of those summer playthings lying around such as trampolines that are hazardous if they become airborne.
Bob Mcdavitt
Customers pretended to be going on holiday on preview day, to try to get the discount in advance, but you could tell they were lying.
Matthew Murphy
We've seen a big change in the landscape of homes in the low-lying areas.
Pat Gordon
With the truth you can be quite causal, with lying you must be very exact.
Hans Kasper
I think the international community should be conscious now -- 10 years -- that Aristide has been lying to everybody.
Gerard Latortue
We became his adopted family not knowing he was manipulating us and lying to us that he'd been grooming Elizabeth for taking her away.
Marsha Thomsen
When it was over, they were lying their helpless.
Dodie Davidson
Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now.
Brian Adams
We could have had a great year, but we had injuries, the 'T.O.' thing and all of that stuff. You'd be lying if you didn't say it was a shock.
Mike Bartrum
There is no cache of cards lying around. It's the economies of scale more than anything.
Renita Hosler
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Clare Booth Luce
This is an academic institution, the foundation of which is truth. People get failed at this school for lying, inventing.
Barbara Fairchild
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
Mel Gibson
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead.
Fiona Apple
When I woke up in the field, I didn't know how long I was lying there.
Matt Suter
We had children lying everywhere. They had all been shot.
Charles O. Jones
It was like -- oh my God, I can't believe it. So everybody came out and there were kids lying on the ground, running all over the place.
Bob Carpenter
The description of the animal from the golfers matched that of a coyote. The animal was lying down and then wandered off.
Ashe Reardon
When Burns stops lying about us, we'll stop telling the truth about him.
Matt Mckenna
You're lying. You never contacted me, or any of the other commissioners.
Charles Craig
I think you would be lying to yourself if you were not surprised that we were 23-6. A lot of people said we would be lucky to finish .500. We surprised a lot of people, including myself.
Zach Braden
When you are lying there with a woman who is bleeding, it seems like an eternity.
Richard Gross
They say Texas has the most friendly people. After meeting these people, they weren't lying.
Louie Walters
Considering my upbringing and what I saw around me everyday, I can't deny that I didn't have some kind of an advantage, ... But at the same time I'd be lying if I said I've never felt any pressure.
Alejandro Fernandez
All her injuries were consistent with a fall down the stairs. When found she was lying with her face down or on the side face down. This indicates she died from asphyxia.
Peter Cooper
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
AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
Ambrose Bierce
Bluff is a nice word for lying. The cards are going to even out in the end. In poker, the one who lies the best wins.
Chris Anderson
Diplomacy: lying in state.
Oliver Hereford
There are vehicles lying around, bodies lying around, and there are bits of bodies around me.
John Simpson
People called me this morning saying, 'Quit lying.
Lawrence Sivils
There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
Gary Numan
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
It hurts. It would be lying to say it didn't. But what these kids have accomplished has been unparalleled in school history and you can't let one game take away from that.
Brad Barton
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
Don't accuse each other of lying. That's not professional conduct.
Rodney Melville
Lying is cognitively complex, ... It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.
Adrian Raine
It's highly, highly critical of his reliability. They should have the truth before them, his prior conviction for dishonesty. There is no crime that's more probative than lying to a jury.
James Senescu
This clearly shows that contrary to Iran's claim that it is transparent and cooperating with the IAEA, it hasn't stopped being deceitful, hasn't stopped lying and hiding its program.
Alireza Jafarzadeh
Just like your dog lying down and being scratched all over ... they enjoy it.
Mike Hayward
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't thinking about it a bit.
Jason Spezza
If you had a kid who did drugs wouldn't you look into it? ... And see if they are lying to you?
Bonny Lee Bakley
I saw some soldiers lying on the ground. There were a lot of civilians as well who were being taken in the stretchers.
Abdullah Jan
Lying to a grand jury cannot be tolerated whether it is in Apache County or Washington D.C.. I can assure the people of Apache County that anyone who lies in connection with this investigation will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Grant Woods
It is inhumane. They were all crammed in there, basically bodies lying on bodies.
Gustavo Soto
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first -- and the other 2% are lying.
David Remnick
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
Roger Kahn
To sweeten men's lying lips!
Veronica Franco
Everybody has clothes lying around their house, everybody has some thing to give.
Andrew Colbert
When they came out, [they said] he was lying there.
Delois West
The only thing I'd like to see us do is be consistent across the Coast. Evacuation of low-lying areas is the main thing.
Butch Loper
I would think until I found/ Something I can never find,/ Something lying on the ground,/ In the bottom of my mind.
James Stephens
But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.
Reggie White
The heart rate went up for both lying and truth, but the gastric electric activity only changed with lying.
Pankaj Pasricha
Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce
You were lying to Dave because you wanted to keep the lines of communication open? Dave had never refused to talk to you guys.
Katharine Liell
He is an aggressive prosecutor. If he feels someone is lying to him, he takes it personally.
Joshua Dratel
The thing was just lying there for me to put in.
Ben Street
DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce
We are concerned about the decision's effect on the rank-and-file. Anyone who does this for a living and says they don't care how it affects people's lives is lying. But we have to move this company forward.
Jack Butler
That's the memory I want to keep of her, not the image of her lying on some hotel bed.
David Bloch
The prosecutors -- I don't know how them people can live with themselves because of the lying that they do.
James Nichols
I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
Dorothea Dix
My brother's always been a fighter, all his life. He was the closest thing I had to a father. It's hard to look at my idol lying there helplessly, and I cannot do anything but pray for him.
Ted Bailey
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Are you telling me that if he were to swear that he told you that, you would swear in a counter sense that he was lying?
Bruce Johnston
She was concerned about him. She knew he was lying about his past but she didn't know what.
Dave Sunshine
I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't feeling the pressure. I missed a couple of balls early doors but after that it went really well.
Matthew Stevens
Next Big Thing -- you hear all that crap. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't psyched.
Chris O'donnell
I'd be lying if I said otherwise. This one's going to be special.
Weylan Harding
I can't hide the fact I'm down; I'd be lying. But I know now what I need to get better at.
Bradlee Van Pelt
From the first time she entered his life, she stressed him out. He was having chest pains, lying down in between patients.
Laura Melisi
All we've been told is that there are bodies lying around, and we can't get to them all.
John Saltarelli
Everybody that came up to us and asked if we won, they thought we were lying. Some of them had this face on them, a shocked face, kind of like seeing a ghost.
Cody Beebe
If he said I said that, he's lying. I told [Drake], 'Alfonso [blew] the call.' That's all I said, I swear. I didn't say anything derogatory.
Brad Penny
In my 20 years as an editor, there's a long way between that and making stuff up or lying.
John Vaughan
Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government was lying about 9/11.
Regina King
He gets called into the bedroom. There lying in the bed is his stepmother, naked, and he's told that he's going to have sex with her.
Gary Mitchell
I don't have much time. I'm not lying.
Brian Wells
She's just lying about everything. Everything that happened was between the both of us. It was consensual. It had nothing to do with what she's saying. But I don't really want to say anything else.
Jorge Garcia
Before (contractors) got here we ourselves cleaned out the furniture, cleaned everything out. Everybody just wanted something to do because we were dead in the water, and lying on your bed and crying isn't going to help, so we cleaned up the place ourselves and the janitorial staff came in here and helped us.
Steve Ward
Kenneth Lay is charged with abusing his powerful position as chairman of the board and CEO and repeatedly lying in an effort to cover up the financial collapse that caused devastating harm to millions of Americans.
Christopher Wray
This is the best we could have hoped for, I'd be lying if I said the whole thing is settled forever.
Tom Wellman
It got so bad, people were lying about their address, renting out apartments in other parts of the city.
Bill Manning
We have two skeletons preserved, the larger lying on top of the other one.
James Clarke
I knew something bad happened because I hit him pretty hard. I didn't know exactly what happened, though; all I felt was him lying on me.
Andre Barrett
We got the call and my sister-in-law and I ran to the ER to see her brother and my husband lying there on the ER table looking like he's been hammered with a baseball bat.
Elizabeth Christian
The city has always been at risk because of its low-lying location.
Earl Blumenauer
I saw his body lying in his cell, and I'm sure that's not true.
Zdenko Tomanovic
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