Lie Quotes

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Lyman Beeche

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Mark Twain

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butle

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2 - 10 - 05

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Virgil, Aeneid

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt, in National Enquire

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - Not giving and taking.

Joyce Grenfell

When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

H. Allen Smith

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

William James

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walke

I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Harriet Martineau

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that? s all you have.

James Dean

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Claud Cockburn

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Heinrich Heine

Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Huxley

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The autocrat of the breakfast - Table

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

Martin Luthe

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

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

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

John Burroughs

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Prince Otto

Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al - Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.

Osama Bin Laden, BBC

The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Dorothy Parke

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

William Occam

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840