Lie Quotes

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - Change Into something rich and strange.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw
People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
E. v. lucas - i have noticed that the people who are late are...
Anton chekhov - man is what he believes....
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.
Bertrand Russell
Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Albert einstein, quoted in scientific american, september 2004, page 69 - no one but a theorist believes his theory;...
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
The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.
Havelock Ellis
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce
We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - And shudder.
Bible, James 2: 19 (New International Version)
I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
Tom Robbins
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.
Thomas Jefferson
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
Author Unknown
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Henry Ford
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
Charles De Gaulle
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau
The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.
Walter Dale Langtry
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.
Unknown
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
Dorothy Parke
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Walter Bagehot
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.
James Baldwin
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.
Francis Quarles
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.
Alfred Adle