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Lies Quotes by Julian Barnes
- History is the lies of the victors,
- Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found…
- History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the…
- I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to…
- What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd…
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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… — 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… — 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… — Mikhail Bakunin