Lies Quotes
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There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
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The soul's joy lies in doing.
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But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
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When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
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Children's lies are signs of great talent.
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People for the most part can smell lies.
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Drawing is but a means to an end. One imagines that drawing can be beautiful-it is not the lines which are beautiful, but what they signify, the sentiments which they translate. In reality, there is no such thing as beauty in drawing, or color beauty lies alone in revelation of truth.
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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
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I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as has been disguised as 'useful' or 'improving' when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert.
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But I don't want some pretty face To tell me pretty lies All I want is someone to believe.
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The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such Masters, as the Great-Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.
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We are convinced of the huge potential that still lies ahead and particularly in 'The Economist''s ability to seize the many development opportunities linked to the digitisation of the media industry.
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Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
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The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
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Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level
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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
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The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.
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Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.
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Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
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Poets tell many lies.
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Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.
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The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
