Quotes on Lies

I keep reading between the lies.

Author: Goodman Ace

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Author: Theodor Adorno

Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.

Author: Tom Allen

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

Author: John Arbuthnot

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Author: Francis Bacon

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Author: Yogi Berra

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

Author: Marc Bloch

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

Author: James Bovard

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

Author: Carol Braun

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

Author: David Byrne

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Author: Arthur Calwell

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

Author: Jennifer Capriati

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

Author: Orson Card

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

Author: Eduardo Chillida

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Author: Winston Churchill

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Author: Le Corbusier

Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.

Author: Richard Davis

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

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

Author: Isadora Duncan

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Author: Wayne Dyer

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

Author: Max Eastman

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Author: Ralph Emerson

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Author: Ralph Emerson

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

Author: Epictetus

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Author: Epictetus

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

Author: Edie Falco

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

Author: W. Fields

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Author: Helen Gahagan

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Author: Johann Goethe

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Author: Gunther Grass

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

Author: Edward Hall

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.

Author: B. Hart

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

Author: Don Henley

I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.

Author: Clifford Irving

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

Author: Derrick Jensen

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Author: John Keats

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.

Author: Howard Koch

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Author: Alfred Korzybski

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Author: Stephen Leacock

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

Author: Joe Lieberman

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Author: Anne Lindbergh

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

Author: Tina Louise

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.

Author: David Low

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

Author: Roger Mahony

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

Author: Ian Mckellen

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Author: Agnes Mille

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

Author: Jack Miller

The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.

Author: Arthur Murray

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?

Author: Adela Nicolson

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

Author: Phil Ochs

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Author: Merlin Olsen

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Author: William Paley

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

Author: Evita Peron

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

Author: Pablo Picasso

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Author: Francois Rabelais

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.

Author: Geraldo Rivera

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

Author: Boyle Roche

Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline.

Author: Julius Schwartz

As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.

Author: Junipero Serra

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Author: William Shakespeare

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Author: Paul Simon

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Author: Robert Stevenson

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

Author: Henrietta Szold

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

Author: Sharon Tate

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Author: Margaret Thatcher

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Author: Henry Thoreau

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Author: Mark Twain

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

Author: Edmund Waller