Lies Quotes
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The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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.
Rachel Carson
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How is it possible not to strive to know what the awakening minds of the young are eager to learn from us? It is little less than criminal that we should put them off with foolish speech or lies.
John Lancaster Spalding
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I remember you said, ‘The truth should hurt. Truth should knock you on your butt. Lies make it easy to stand.
Charlie Jane Anders
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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.
Bruce Alberts
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The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Let a man be never so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
Jonathan Swift
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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
Lord Byron
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Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.
Carol Grace
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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
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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison The Doors
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis
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Lies are essential to humanity.
Marcel Proust
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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
Honore de Balzac
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Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!
Milton Berle
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The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe.
Jasper Fforde
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
Alexandre Dumas
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The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.
Adolf Hitler
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Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.
Peter Ueberroth
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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
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What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.
Marcel Proust
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Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?
Martin Luther
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Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.
Evita Peron
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare Pavese