Lies Quotes
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Lies are essential to humanity.
Marcel Proust
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The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe.
Jasper Fforde
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Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.
Gautama Buddha
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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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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Lake quiets, tired of my lies.
Deborah Ager
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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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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
Miguel de Cervantes
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
Alexandre Dumas
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Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually...we tell them to ourselves.
Ally Carter
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
Dante Alighieri
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Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.
Sue Monk Kidd
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand
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Lies are better than tranquilizers.
Elena Ferrante
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Stephen Leacock
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
Henrik Ibsen
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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I actually didn't find too many differences between B-town and the south. The difference lies in the temperature. I was shooting when it was 45 degrees Celsius in Chennai; Mumbai is cooler.
Amy Jackson
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"We're going to be okay." Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.
Ally Carter
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Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.
Ally Carter
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A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
Friedrich Nietzsche