Lie Quotes

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Lyman Beeche
Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.
Raisa M. Gorbachev
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Margot Asquith
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Fred Rogers
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.
Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.
William r. matthews - naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual...
Stephen butler leacock - i am a great believer in luck and i find the...
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison Lurie
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mary Catherine Bateson
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitle
A thief believes everybody steals.
E. W. Howe
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
William Shakespeare
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
William Occam
Dominique de menil - what should move us to action is human dignity:...
Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift Rom. 126 - 8.
Bruce Kempe
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
J. B. Priestley
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.
Samuel Butle
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
Izaak Walton
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
Karl Kraus
Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.
Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae
On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.
Kelly Le Brock
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Erik H. Erikson
Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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
Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Phillip K. Dick
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - The earliest spark in the dreaming youth - Is this dream a great dream.
John A. Appleman
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism".
A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.
Author Unknown
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
Joseph Brodsky
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
Henry David Thoreau
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.
George Gordon Byron
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.
Frank Deford
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony