Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

True strength lies in gentleness.

Irish Proverb

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Sophocles

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Sallust

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Samuel Butler

The test of any man lies in action.

Pindar

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.

Ariel Sharon

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H. L. Mencken

A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Pierre Corneille

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

Voltaire

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

Otto von Bismarck

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

Bernard M. Baruch

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Jane Fonda

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

Douglas Malloch

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Francois Rabelais

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Mark Rutherford

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

Sir Walter Scott

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Clare Booth Luce

I long for scenes where man has never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

John Clare

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Mark Twain

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

Baltasar Gracian

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato

I would never lie. I willfully participate in a campaign of misinformation.

Fox Mulder

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Elizabeth Bowen

History, sir, will tell lies, as usual.

George Bernard Shaw

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All that is straight lies. All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

William Shakespeare

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear. Of him that hears it, never in the tongue. Of him that makes it.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

Epictetus

There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams

We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.

Bill Clinton

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Pablo Neruda

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Oscar Levant

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.

Hasidic Saying

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

John Oldham

It all at this point lies with the kids. If they make some changes and work on some things, they have the opportunity.

Doug Kunde

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Minna Antrim

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Alexander Pope

I picture my epitaph: "Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown".

Paul Newman

The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Beneath every fear lies the pearl of hope.

Gabriella Goddard

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

Grantland Rice

The problem lies in interpretation. A nude should be accepted for its face value — an exploration of the human form in all its natural glory.

Greg Gorman

The future of football lies in Asia and I have no doubt that in the next 20 years the World Cup will come to Asia or Australia.

Peter Velappan

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Jean Rostand

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

Walter Benjamin

From now on, the responsibility for what happens in the Gaza Strip lies in the hands of the Palestinian Authority .

General Avi Kochavi

In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.

Dominique De Villepin

That's where the problem lies. The girls are unfamiliar with the course - they're not sure how to get out of trouble.

Jon Lundin

Jeremy Dozier was a by-the-book officer. The charges are nothing but a pack of lies.

Ralph Meczyk

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

Malcolm Bradbury

Here lies a King that ruled, as he thought fit, / The universal monarchy of wit.

Thomas Carew

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

Adrian Anderson

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Alexis De Tocqueville

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Heinrich Heine

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

George Steiner

The root problem lies at board level.

Howard Wilkinson

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Havelock Ellis

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Maria Montessori

[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.

John Arbuthnot

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

William Morris

A bunch of lies.

Scott Peterson

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

Nick Diamos

I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.

Clifford Irving

All of what the government said is lies upon lies.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

The real challenge lies not in debating whether disparities exist, because the evidence is overwhelming, but in developing and implementing strategies to reduce and eliminate them.

Alan Nelson

Nobody knows for sure what lies ahead -- and the history of the Internet has taught us to expect the unexpected.

Susannah Fox

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

George Crane

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Margot Asquith

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Washington Irving

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Tommy Lasorda

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Ada Louise Huxtable

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

Tina Louise

Love lies beyond / The tomb, the earth, which fades like dew! / I love the fond, / The faithful, and the true.

John Clare

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

Georg Cantor

Our defense is going to have to carry us early because that's where our experience lies.

Norm Eash

The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.

Cesare Pavese

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, / Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?

Laurence Hope

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Errol Flynn

Every time somebody in the world lies, Dick Ebersol gets a royalty.

Dick Ebersol

At the executive level, inflating responsibilities and falsifying degrees are two common resume lies.

Michael Kessler

The rumors are lies. There were a lot of people said we're not going to play; that we don't have a contract. ... We got it worked out; got it hammered out.

Ron Hargrave

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Adam Osborne

He doesn't even know when he's telling lies anymore, he's lied so much in this story, in this case.

Gerald Smith

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Francis Quarles

They have been caught today in the web of their lies.

Jack Thompson

He's spreading lies, slandering individuals. These are vigilantes.

Ahmed Bedier

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

Louis D. Brandeis

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, 'What are they doing?' The answer was, 'Swapping lies.'

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The real solution to childhood obesity lies in changing our built environment. There's no other way to approach it.

Dr. Goutham Rao

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

Ivan Turgenev

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett

Work for the actor lies in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

Lee Strasberg

The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

E. M. Forster

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

Boyle Roche

If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies.

Walter Raleigh, Sr.

My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.

Nadia Mccaffrey

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-- victorious.

Vince Lombardi

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism.

Alex Salmond

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

Fran Drescher

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Gunther Grass

My only hope lies in my despair.

Jean Baptiste Racine

Why is this person telling me lies?

John Humphrys

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

Russian proverb

The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.

Mike Hess

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

Paul Eldridge

I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do.

Cassandra Gash

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.

Hugh Macleod

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

Tim Allen

We have a great opportunity to bring people together, and that's where our strength lies for the future.

Robert Duffy

How can these people be so inhumane? Terri is forgotten and lies cold in her grave, and they feel sympathy Morales. What about my daughter, who was there to defend her?

Barbara Christian

From the author of lies. The devil.

Matthew Pinto

This year the risk for investors lies in holding bonds, not stocks.

Yuuki Sakurai

Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling,/ The darling of our crew.

Charles Dibdin

The ball lies in the administration's court.

Councilman Michael Polensek

Wisdom never lies.

Homer

You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals.

Ian Paisley

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Lech Walesa

All of the true things I'm about to tell you are shameless lies.

Kurt Vonnegut

Blue wall of silence and lies to obstruct justice.

Abner Louima

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Imron Cotan

We're wanting to let all the people know that all the land in Australia has been given back to the Aboriginal people ... and the sovereignty now lies with all Aboriginal nations.

Robert Corowa

I'm not a big fan of the ocean because I'm scared of what lies beneath.

Lake Bell

That is where the crisis is right now. There is a tremendous need. That is where the priority lies.

Keith Mckenzie

Here lies he who neither feared nor flattered any flesh.

James Douglas

No, that was all lies.

Ben Wedeman

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

Alphonso Jackson

We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

Charles de Gaulle

There were so many lies throughout the trial.

Joe Ross

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

William Carlos Williams

Where lies the land, to which the ship would go?Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know.And where the land she travels from?Away, far far behind, is all that they can say.

Arthur Hugh Clough

The importance of the ... maneuvers lies in the time and geographical place they are happening as well as the arms used.

General Yahya Rahim Safavi

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Allan Massie

At Handspring, we believe that the future of the handheld industry lies in wireless communication, and we are investing our resources accordingly.

Donna Dubinsky

This agreement is three pages of lies.

Thomas Bauer

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

David K Shipler

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

John Sterling

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

Stephen Jay Gould

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Mel Gibson

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

Mark Twain

I don't want any more of our young men and women to die in this war. It was a bad war from the start, and it's a bad war now. It was based on lies.

Bill Mitchell

What lies ahead is more pain at the pump.

Charles Langley

This is where the challenge lies. If you don't do enough to trigger rebuilding, you're not helping the fishing industry either.

Priscilla Brooks

The bread that you store up belongs to the hungry; the coat that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold that you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.

St. Basil

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Havelock Ellis

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Merlin Olsen

Much of their future lies there, ... The high school dropout rates are all going in the right direction and are improving. They have gotten better for the second generation.

Roberto Suro

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Howard Mumford Jones

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

These statements are false and not only are they false, they're just malicious lies.

Antonio Davis

It's to keep track of our opponent, and definitely this opponent, who keeps changing what he's saying. We want to keep track of all his lies and distortions.

Ivette Mendez

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Robert Hall

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadn't time--/ and now he has eternity.

Piet Hein

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Plato

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Havelock Ellis

Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.

James Roosevelt

The individual units are very cute and very adorable. But the function of them as an ensemble is where the real strategy lies.

Penelope Boston

I want to eventually move up to the marathon and to compete with top runners is a good experience for what lies ahead.

Hitomi Niiya

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Isaac Disraeli

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Anton Chekhov