He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I have read articles about me where a reporter has exaggerated something that I communicated, but I wouldn't say there's ever been… — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
That's right. Obama didn't lie to you when he said, 'if you like your plan, you can keep it.' Why? Because, you… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
It is hard to be with another's pain if we cannot be with our own. Since I was a child I have… — Oriah Dreamer Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless. It is simple awareness devoid of movement… — Ajahn Thate Copy Share Image
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us,… — Emilie du Chatelet Copy Share Image
Every morning I wake up and see, The most handsome man lying next to me. He's the one I cherish and love,… — J. Thomas Newsome Copy Share Image
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Only you," he said, so softly I could barely hear him. "To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
