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Lies Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
- Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of…
- I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
- The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete…
- The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
- The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective…
- The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
- The truth is rarely pure and is never simple.
More Lies Quotes
- 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