The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That's hilarious. — Kreayshawn Copy Share Image
For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Ophelia was surprised by how easily she lied. She had two stolen keys in her pocket, and the lies were sliding off… — Karen Foxlee Copy Share Image
A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it:… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Since I'm known for recording other artists' material, I'm absolutely deluged with mail from all the publishing companies. They take all the… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
Many times people can access that being stage more fully and more easily if at first you are actually doing something. If… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
You lying to yourself, just admit it. May not like the way I use it but you know you aint invent it… — Ludacris Copy Share Image
He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man. — John Ridley Copy Share Image
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent. — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. — Louis Gustave Vapereau Copy Share Image
The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately. — Alan Sugar Copy Share Image