Lies Quotes

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer

Few, Born, Movie

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
Edith Piaf

Love, Fighting, Big

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
Ryan White

Education, Fear, Lack

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Pablo Neruda

Heart, Born, Crime

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

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
Martha Beck

Real, Problems, Tell

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn

Problem, Habits, Income

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Claude Debussy

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
Jane Fonda

Mistakes, Kids, Off

Honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

Honest, Honor, Toil

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

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
Orson Scott Card

Live, Tell, Stories

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot

Political, Die, Last

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
Charles Churchill

Give, Keep, Rest

It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.
David Allan

Truth, Hurt, Gain

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.
Gillian Anderson

Life, Time, Live

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Charles Dudley Warner

Power, Him, Nobody

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
Thomas Love Peacock

Power, Alone, Drunk

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.
Russell Brand

Truth, Throw, Windows

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

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Iris Murdoch

Evil, Off, Letting

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
Alveda King

Truth, Equality, Human

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
Oriana Fallaci

Time, Him, Himself

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

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

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
George Steiner

Life, Words, Resume

No lies, just love.
Conor Oberst

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
J. G. Ballard

Time, Powerful, True

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Bela Lugosi

Ignorance, Means, Community

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail Sheehy

Life, Leader, Whole

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