Lies Quotes

5942 Lies quotes by 3132 unique authors

Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable. — Wes Fesler
Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit… — Wes Fesler
In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor...… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. — Og Mandino
The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had… — Alexander MacLaren
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also. — Robert Browning
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when… — Henry Ward Beecher
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. — Jan Morris
To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom. — John Milton
[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend]… — Anton Chekhov
As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face. — Edith Piaf
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. — James Russell Lowell
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. — H. L. Mencken
It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies… — Joyce Cary
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me,… — Learned Hand
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. — Douglas MacArthur
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows… — Mahatma Gandhi
A lie is an excuse guarded — Jonathan Swift
I'm not smart enough to lie — Ronald Reagan
Oh, what lies there are in kisses. — Heinrich Heine
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. — Eric Hoffer
A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it. — Paula Fox
The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it… — Ernest Hemingway
It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one. — Mark Twain

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