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Lying Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
- When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and…
- A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
- A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
- To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies…
- When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you…
- Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces…
- For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex
- Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.
- You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
- The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.
- We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is…
- Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some…
- A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards,…
- A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist…
- This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair…
- This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I…
- The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when…
- Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
- It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.
More Lying Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette