Lie Quotes - page 8

I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmédy. I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. (Stephen Vincent Benét)
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights, A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie, Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store, Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more. View quote
Robert Southwell
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free. View quote
Zadie Smith
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and their map, who lie Flat on this bed. View quote
John Donne
Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together. View quote
John Donne
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue. View quote
King Hussein
Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of World Government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright shining lie. View quote
Pat Buchanan
Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people. View quote
George Carlin
Nature admits no lie. (Thomas Carlyle)
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie! View quote
Jerry Brown
Don't lie if you don't have to. View quote
Leó Szilárd
Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives. View quote
Mike Huckabee
Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed? View quote
Ai Weiwei
Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody - every time you turn around, 15,000 survivors meet here; 400 survivors convention there. I mean, did you ever notice? Nazis sure were inefficient, weren't they? Boy, boy, boy!...You almost have no survivors that ever say they saw a gas chamber or saw the workings of a gas chamber.... they'll say these preposterous stories that anybody can check out to be a lie, an absolute lie. View quote
David Duke
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded. View quote
Alexander Pope
I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone. View quote
Steve Martin
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'. (Paulo Freire)
Never lie when the truth is more profitable. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie. View quote
Robert Jordan
What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie. View quote
Robert Jordan
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. View quote
Emma Thompson