Lies Quotes
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I never sold any of those "lose 10 pounds every week" scams. I've not changed my tune in all these years. I've seen everything pass by me, and I've been offered millions of dollars to put my name on products that were just lies. And I never did it.
Richard Simmons -
The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
Mahatma Gandhi
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The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality.
Bret Michael Sychak Poison -
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.
Geoff Mulgan -
At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.
Gabrielle Bernstein -
The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe.
Jasper Fforde -
Art never lies, I believe.
Deborah Solomon -
Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.
Evita Peron
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It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
Lysander Spooner -
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
George Eliot -
Particular lies may speak a general truth.
George Eliot -
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Stephen Leacock -
Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.
David Ignatius -
When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
Jonathan Swift -
Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
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.
Rachel Carson -
Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?
Martin Luther -
For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
Alexandre Dumas
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis -
Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down...
Brian Aldiss -
I remember you said, ‘The truth should hurt. Truth should knock you on your butt. Lies make it easy to stand.
Charlie Jane Anders