Lie Quotes

Henry fielding, the history of tom jones, a foundling - jenny replied to this with a bitterness which...
No man ever quite believes in any other man.
Henry Louis Mencken
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan Sontag
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
B. j. gupta - men as well as animals do whatever makes them...
Men may seem detestable as joint stock - Companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Thomas carlyle, heroes and hero worship, 1840 - no sadder proof can be given by man of his own...
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
Lou Reed
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. e. cummings
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Foka Gomez
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
Henry Louis Mencken
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Rmy de Gourmont
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
Robert Montgomery
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957
Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.
James Ramsey
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
Spanish Prove
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Benjamin Franklin
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
Learned Hand, jurist
The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Spencer Churchill
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)
The true Church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit.
Cornelius Stam
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Gen. Peyton C. March
Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.
Henry Louis Mencken
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840
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
I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.
Ronald Reagan
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
Natalie Goldberg, O Magazine, October 2002
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
J. W. Alexande
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.
Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.
Charles - Damian Boulogne
The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.
Ogden Nash, "The Pig".
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles