Lie Quotes

4989 Lie quotes by 2863 unique authors

If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth. — Unknown Author
I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try… — Michael Novak
When we are angry, we will use a lie as fast as a truth if we can hurt with it. Anger feels strong but it… — Pat McBride
I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that… — Joseph Addison
You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work… — John Owen
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among… — Henry Van Dyke
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… — John Donne
Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing… — Satchel Paige
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence. — Alexander Pope
..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as… — Gottfried Leibniz
When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your… — Linji Yixuan
I'm not interested in the wellbeing of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the… — Jaggi Vasudev
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. — Francis Beaumont
Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming… — D. H. Lawrence
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed. — John Donne
When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead. — Cecil Frances Alexander
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. — Joseph Addison
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how. — Elbert Hubbard
The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to… — Virginia Woolf
It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap. — Maxwell Maltz
Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie… — Grant Morrison
Because of Diamond, I have had to begin much of the work afresh. I will not, however, rid myself of her, nor even punish her.… — Isaac Newton
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces… — Richard Reti
All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact… — David Wong

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