Lies Quotes

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. (Sophocles)
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. View quote
Aristotle
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. View quote
Henry Ford
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. View quote
Aristotle
Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. View quote
Karl Kraus
I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. View quote
George Eliot
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. (David Ogilvy)
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. View quote
Václav Havel
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. View quote
Winston Churchill
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers. (Honoré de Balzac)
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. View quote
Washington Irving
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. View quote
George Orwell