Lies Quotes - page 2

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. (Albert Camus)
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity do not easily resume life.
George Steiner
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Mark Twain
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Sun Tzu
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
M. Scott Peck
We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.
Alva Myrdal
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
Anne Hutchinson
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
Mark Akenside
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
Maxim Gorky