Quotes Tagged "lying"

Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.

His relationship with the Catholic Church ended the way love affairs tend to: a priest wanted him to believe a blatant lie, and that was the end of it.

Lies rob us of our trust and we project our untrustworthiness onto everyone around us. Have you ever noticed that the innocent are very trusting? They neither lie nor hold other people’s lies against them. Liars, on the other hand, see sabotage everywhere.

We know so little, and have difficulty learning: so we have to lie for that reason only.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

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

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

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

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

The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.

It is 2017, and we are living in the golden age of lying.