Lies Quotes
5942 Lies quotes by 3132 unique authors
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being…
— Edmund Burke
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That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
— David Byrne
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Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.
— Sholom Aleichem
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Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.
— Paula Abdul
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
— Taylor Caldwell
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
— Joseph Campbell
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Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.
— Tony Campolo
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
— Albert Camus
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
— Albert Camus
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
— Orson Scott Card
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
— Andrew Carnegie
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or…
— John le Carre
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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
— Willa Cather
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view,…
— Willa Cather
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Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
— Kim Cattrall
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
— Paul Cezanne
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often…
— Marc Chagall
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one…
— Noam Chomsky
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Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment.…
— Chris Christie
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