Lies Quotes
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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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The future of India lies in its villages.
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People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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Art never lies, I believe.
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The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
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Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.
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Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
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Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.
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Sticks and stones can break our bones, but lies can break our hearts and our careers.
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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
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The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.
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The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.
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Lies sleep in minds. Truths sleep in souls.
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I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.
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History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors.
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This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available in the open literature.
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Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
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He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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In the end, how much distance lies between the truth and what we believe to be true? Between the things we feel at one time and the things we end up doing?
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Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.
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Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.
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The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.
