Lie Quotes

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.

Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Russell Bake

Authenticity matters little, though - - Our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

David P. Mikkelson, snopes. com, February 25, 2000

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Lenin

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The autocrat of the breakfast - Table

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.

Ronald Reagan

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Alan Watts

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

Charles Manson

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Lord Salisbury

Within the problem lies the solution.

Milton Katselas

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Kahlil Gibran

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 3 scene 4

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

King Stanislas I of Poland

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alfred Alde

There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

William James

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteu

I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

The really happy man never laughs - Seldom - Though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - And the happy are not over strung.

Prof. F. A. P. Aveling

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.

Thomas Jefferson

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Paul Valery

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Johann von Goethe

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

Author Unknown

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Sophia Loren

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

If the belief in Christianity did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!

Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human, All Too Human" page 87, #120.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Hermione Gingold

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg