Lies Quotes
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Little white lies shining like baby teeth in a shallow grave.
Charles Stross
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Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
Vaclav Havel
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In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.
Dennis Prager
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless.
Ben Elton
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The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
Georg Cantor
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Oswald Cabal: Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.
H. G. Wells
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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
Kevyn Aucoin
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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
Oscar Wilde
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Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
Adolf Hitler
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Cover-ups and deception are the nature of this society. Without lies it won’t exist.
Ai Weiwei
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
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For 'The Grey Album,' I'd been thinking about the good side of lying - lying as a kind of improvisatory act in black culture. Afterward, it nagged at me because there are those other kinds of lies that I think are all around us, and I was fascinated about hoaxes in general. So 'Bunk' became a natural extension of 'The Grey Album.'
Kevin Young
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Joan Didion
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The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors.
Joseph Brodsky
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To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.
Daisaku Ikeda
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The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.
Edward Burns
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All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
Charles Dickens
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Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.
Marianne Williamson
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Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.
Joe Wilson