Lies Quotes - page 6

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. (Margot Asquith)
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Truth is treason in the empire of lies. View quote
Ron Paul
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. View quote
Odilon Redon
Herein lies the tragedy of the age not that men are poor all men know something of poverty not that men are wicked who is good Not that men are ignorant what is truth Nay, but that men know so little of men. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases. (Page 1) View quote
Cees Nooteboom
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Act well your part, there all the honour lies. View quote
Alexander Pope
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Freedom lies in being bold. View quote
Robert Frost
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. (Garrison Keillor)
The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. View quote
Henry Miller
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies. View quote
Walter Raleigh
The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second. View quote
Brian De Palma
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason. View quote
Emil Cioran
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. View quote
Joseph Addison
Here lies my wife here let her lie Now she's at rest, and so am I. View quote
John Dryden
How he lies in his rights of a man Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. (Robert Browning)
Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. View quote
Louis Sullivan
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence. View quote
Azar Nafisi