Lies Quotes
5942 quotes by 3452 authors
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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
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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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
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
— Diane Ackerman
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
— Teresa of Avila
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
— Francis Bacon
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I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
— David Bailey
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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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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
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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
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Honore de Balzac
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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
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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
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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
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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
— Bernard Baruch
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
— Charles Baudelaire
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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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