Lie Quotes

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - He could not even lie.

Mark Twain

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.

Thomas Fulle

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillo

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Clive

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.

Walter Dale Langtry

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.

Romanian Prove

The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it.

Peter James, Ghosts of the Queen Mary

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Paul Clifford

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

Albert Einstein

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Havelock Ellis

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

The Divine Pymande

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003

Maybe you are the cool generation... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

George William Curtis

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Thomas Hardy

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles De Gaulle

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Homer, The Odyssey

If you tell a lie - - Tell a big one.

Joespeh Goebbels

The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.

John P. Grie

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

Benjamin Franklin

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein