Lies Quotes

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.