Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

Almost anything can be preserved in alcohol, except health, happiness, and money.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.

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.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

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.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

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.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

I don't take criticism lying down.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.