Lie Quotes - page 3

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. (Czesław Miłosz)
Truth never was indebted to a lie. View quote
Edward Young
You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth. View quote
Christopher Hampton
Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it's only faith that gives love its strength and its joy. View quote
Sergei Lukyanenko
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. View quote
Henry Wotton
A lie never lives to be old. View quote
Sophocles
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. View quote
Mark Twain
It takes good memory to keep up a lie. View quote
Pierre Corneille
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. (Aldous Huxley)
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. View quote
Joseph Brodsky
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. View quote
Mark Strand
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. View quote
Andre Norton
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Only the magic and the dream are true - all the rest's a lie. View quote
Jean Rhys
He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie. View quote
Mickey Mantle
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true Or is it something worse? (Bruce Springsteen)
It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. View quote
Graham Greene
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. View quote
Alfred Adler
O suffering, sad humanity O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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