Lies Quotes

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Character, Person, Hands

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken

Money, Fact, Lives

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal

Power, Thought, Greatness

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone

Great, Successful, Words

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles

Good, Men, Lost

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre

Freedom, Secret, Ignorant

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
Mike Tyson

Wife, Sense, Her

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
Norodom Sihanouk

Time, History, Place

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle

Business, Hand, Distance

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

Impossible, Between, Possible

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
W. C. Fields

Living, Here, Rather

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
Pablo Picasso

Tell, Questions, Answer

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle

Time, Good, Deep

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell

History, Truth, Pass

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Heraclitus

Justice, False, Overtake

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle

Time, Past, Soul

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle

Become, Second, Duty

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus

Words, Philosophy, Two

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot

Vision, Tolerance, Wider

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor

Smart, May, Thought

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli

Three, Kinds, Statistics

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren Kierkegaard

Between, Strangers, Bottom

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Attitude, Themselves, Meaning

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
Saint Patrick

Deep, Before, Compassion

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller

Life, Strength, True

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Life, Courage, Whatever

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose Bierce

Pretty, Heaven, Soon

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George Orwell

Through, Sun, Earth

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Truth, Lie, Half

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
Epictetus

Tell, Easy, Show

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