Lies Quotes

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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling… — Pietro Aretino
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. — Teresa of Avila
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. — Francis Bacon
I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies. — David Bailey
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only… — Mikhail Bakunin
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you… — Stanley Baldwin
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. — Honore de Balzac
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under… — Honore de Balzac
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are… — Henry Adams
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to… — Henry Adams
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. — Bernard Baruch
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. — Charles Baudelaire
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is… — Charles Baudelaire

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