Lies Quotes
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
Agatha Christie
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My heart really lies in my jewelry line, Archangel. I have really enjoyed watching the company go from nothing and slowly building it year by year, and getting into one store, then another store. And then I'll see someone wearing a piece of it on the streets, and it's all very exciting.
Brody Jenner
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I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.
Bryce Courtenay
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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level
Douglas Hofstadter
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Whether you're driving it short or you drive it far, you got to be in the fairway because the rough's brutal, and if you get out of the rough into some of these bunkers, you can get some funky lies.
Dustin Johnson
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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
George Steiner
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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Mark Twain
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Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.
Marianne Williamson
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It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.
Stephen Samuel Wise
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Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.
F. Paul Wilson
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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
Lillian Hellman
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
Peter Hammill
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Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It's the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation-a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.
H. E. Davey
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All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, the Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.
Paul Broun
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True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
E. A. Bucchianeri
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A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
Rudyard Kipling
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The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
Plato
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Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.
Anna Soubry
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It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.
Humphry Davy
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I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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The virtue of frugality lies in a middle between avarice and profusion, of which the one consists in an excess, the other in a defect of the proper attention to the objects of self–interest.
Adam Smith
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The comedy is always the same. In the first act the hero imagines a place where happiness exists. In the second he strives towards that goal. In the third he comes up short or what amounts to the same thing he achieves his goal only to find that happiness lies a little further down the road.
James Branch Cabell