Good Lying Quotes
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The soul is a liar, it's lying to you. A little arrogance is good for the soul though.
— Vincent De Paul
Lying is an art. A good lie shouldn't be embellished so much.
— David Eddings
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
— Michel De Montaigne
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
— Henry David Thoreau
This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.
— Lemony Snicket
It was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.
— John Connolly
I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.
— Paul Theroux
Pretending is another way of lying, and I am so good at both.
— Kiersten White
I wanna lie to you sometimes ... but I can't.I wanna tell you that it's all good ... but it ain't. — Cee Lo Green
Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.
— Luigi Pirandello
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
— Diane Ackerman
The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Hiding who you were isn't lying about who you are. But it isn't doing anyone else a damn bit of good.
— Amber Neko Meador
A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.
— Erno Rubik
Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.
— Charles Spurgeon
And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
— George Washington
Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
— Julianna Baggott
Why clone cats when there's perfectly good Russell Crowe lying around?
— Celia Rivenbark
For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex
— C.S. Lewis
Your teammates see you through the good and the bad. They see where your foundation lies.
— Tobin Heath
The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge!
— Winfield Scott
Lying didn't feel good; it just felt familiar.
— Adrienne DeWolfe
Has that Copperfield no tague! I would do a good deal for you, if you tell me, without lying that somebody had cut it out
— Charles Dickens
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
— Henry David Thoreau
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.
— William Shakespeare
Believe me," he said, pointing his finger at me like a gun, "no good comes from lying about what you really want.
— Jennifer R. Hubbard
Serena was very good at telling tales. She had always been convincing (that was the word her sister liked to use for lying).
— Victoria Schwab
Nothing good will come out with lying.
— Son Jae Ho
Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.
— Jane Smiley
We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.
— Frank Herbert
Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.
— Chevy Chase
Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.
— Jimmy Buffett
There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Donata Santori looked down at the dead body lying at her feet and thought, 'Damn, that can't be a good sign.
— Deborah Blake
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[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
— Laurence Olivier
Lying never looks good when there's a corpse involved.
— Steve Howell
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
As your training progresses, always remember that the key to gaining the ability for spontaneous and creative technique lies in good ukemi;
— Mitsugi Saotome
Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.
— Marcus Aurelius
A good memory is needed once we have lied.[Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.] — Pierre Corneille
Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.
— Suzanne Collins
If there was one thing Kelsier was good at, it was lying to himself.
— Brandon Sanderson
I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.
— Ian Harding
If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Eyes aren't good liars.
— Shannon Wiersbitzky
Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous ...
— Pablo Casals
Good luck lies in odd numbers.
— William Shakespeare
I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
— Werner Herzog
The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It's for their own good. — Sophie Kinsella
Brastias. My friend." Uh-oh, this couldn't be good. "Do you lie to me?""Uh ... no."
"See? That's a lie! — G.A. Aiken
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
— Matthew Arnold
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
— Chuck Klosterman
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
— Mary Wilson Little
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
— Rick Warren
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
— Richard Steele
A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Why indeed should we perpetually be thinking whether things are good for us, as if we were patients lying in a hospital?
— Henry James
Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.
— George MacDonald
We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
— Vince McMahon
Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Inept lying was almost as good as honesty.
— Graham Moore
They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.
— Cool Papa Bell
In the motive lies the good or ill.
— Samuel Johnson
If you're going to lie, at least be good at it.
— Behdad Sami
He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.
— Heinrich Heine
A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.
— Joan Slonczewski
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
— William Cowper
You, my friend, are so good at lying to yourself you're actually starting to believe the bullshit coming out of your mouth
— Simone Elkeles
Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
— Edward Abbey
I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.
— Suzanne Collins
This steak wouldn't have tasted nearly as good if I'd been lying dead at the bottom of a ravine. I lifted my martini and drank to that.
— Marcia Clark
A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.
— Laurence Sterne
Behind good brands lie stakeholder companies.
— Will Hutton