Lies Quotes

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

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.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.