Lies Quotes

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B. H. Liddell Hart

Reality, Dead, While

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
James Wolcott

Government, Yourself, Tell

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
Howard Mumford Jones

Hope, Again, Dead

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
Ken MacLeod

Father, Devil, Internet

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
Henry Adams

God, Heart, Long

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Vaclav Havel

Age, Nature, Experience

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
Lech Walesa

Life, Path, Cannot

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V. S. Naipaul

Facts, Writer, Fiction

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Robert Browning

Life, Past, Before

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
Tommy Chong

Justice, American, System

I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.
Caroline Kennedy

Heart, Through, Democratic

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
E. W. Howe

Love, Enemy, Him

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
E. W. Howe

Public, Except, Detest

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Martha Gellhorn

Truth, Realize, Taste

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Everything, Making, Mankind

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.
Steve Irwin

Live, Problem, Whatever

I don't know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don't have to protect each other much, unless there's like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it's important that they look out for each other.
Seann William Scott

Loyalty, Important, Baseball

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
Kevyn Aucoin

Fashion, Demand, Collective

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
Heinrich Heine

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Elias Canetti

True, Someone, Lie

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.
Goran Persson

Humanity, Made, After

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
Bill Owens

Success, Leadership, Work

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.
Jonathan Sacks

Universe, Meaning, Outside

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
John Boehner

Great, Power, Chance

The test of any man lies in action.
Pindar

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
William S. Paley

Others, White, Complexion

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Iain Duncan Smith

Faith, Future, Past

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand

Reality, Honest, Books

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
Derrick Jensen

Living, Become, Tell

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
Tim Allen

Good, Positive, Liar

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