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“Though true repentance be never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.”
Thomas Brooks (Puritan) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don’t be scared inside the house. Make the most out of it — it’s a once-in-a-lifetime memory. Just stay true to yourself. It’s going to be hard at first, lalo na sa (especially during) first weeks — testing the waters, pakikisalamuha. Pero (But) if you stay true to yourself, everything else will follow.”
Shuvee Etrata (born 2001) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Etrata redefines strength as 'First Miss Gandang Powerful' Daily Tribune. 28 October 2025
“Victor I will remain Or on this earth lie slain, Never shall she sustain Loss to redeem me.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Welcome, maids-of-honour! You do bring In the spring, And wait upon her. ... Yet, though thus respected, By-and-by Ye do lie, Poor girls, neglected.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lord, Thou hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell; A little house, whose humble roof Is weather-proof; Under the spars of which I lie Both soft and dry.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cos. Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour? Kite. Oh, a mighty large bed! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware: ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1706 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Recruiting Officer (1706), Act i. Sc. 1.
“Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out Neither side is glorious On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing Not to lie under the earth but to walk upon it without crutches”
Peter Weiss (1916–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop’d down serene and wrote them in the dust,— Trod under foot, the sport of every wind, Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind. There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie, And grieved they could not ’scape the Almighty eye.”
Samuel Madden (1686–1765) first seen 1745 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boulter's Monument (1745), dedicated to Frederick, Prince of Wales, who had been Madden's student.
“Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Light lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,— Between the shadowy bournes of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With Memory.”
Madison Cawein (1865–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When death hath poured oblivion through my veins And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie In that vast house, common to serfs and thanes,— I shall not die, I shall not utterly die, For beauty born of beauty—that remains.”
Madison Cawein (1865–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.”
Madison Cawein (1865–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I often wonder if I've already died, Or if the 'I' is an unintelligible lie”
Aaron Weiss wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The origin of most neurotic fears can be traced to childhood. The seeds of fear may lie dormant in childhood in the subconscious mind. They sprout forth after some time during some period of crisis or stress.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mortality, behold and fear! What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones: Here they lie, had realms and lands, Who now want strength to stir their hands”
Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Steer, hither steer your wingèd pines, All beaten mariners! Here lie Love’s undiscover’d mines, A prey to passengers.”
William Browne (1590–1645) first seen 1614 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sirens' Song". St. 1. The Inner Temple Masque (1614) Scene 1
“Where’er she lie, Locked up from mortal eye, In shady leaves of destiny.”
Richard Crashaw (1612–1649) said by 1649 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Sir John Denham
“So if despite that, Hitler prepared war, he perpetrated the greatest lie and betrayal in the world. This trial clearly shows that Hitler did just that. I have no hesitation to state very clearly that Hitler was a liar and a betrayer on a mammoth scale. Even without the death of the 5 million extermination camp victims, Hitler would still go down in history as the greatest villain that ever lived.”
Hans Fritzsche (1900–1953) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leon Goldensohn, April 6, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“It first was a rumour dismissed as a lie but then came the evidence none could deny: a double page spread in the Sunday Express — The Russians are running the DHSS!”
Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Russians in the DHSS", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
“Lovers lie around in it Broken glass is found in it Grass I like that stuff”
Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stufferation", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991).
“Et quant ma maladie Garie Ne sera nullement Sans vous, douce anemie, Qui lie Estes de mon tourment, A jointes mains deprie Vo cuer, puis qu'il m'oublie, Que temprement m'ocie, Car trop langui longuement. Douce dame jolie, Pour dieu ne penses mie Que nulle ait signourie Seur moy fors vous seulement.”
Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377) said by 1377 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At present, there are hundreds of thousands of prisoners in Germany of all nationalities and degrees, partly in camps, but for the most part, however, as workers...The dangers of inter-mixing and bastardizing of our people are extraordinarily grave. They lie to a great extent in the almost unlimited lack of knowledge throughout our nation of the problems of blood.”
Günther Pancke (1899–1973) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (3 July 1940). Quoted in "Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals" - Page 117 - 1953
“When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self. The judge cannot be the judged, and even to accept is to judge.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He certainly over-heated himself at Venice by walking at a season when it is said that only Dogs and Englishmen are seen out of doors at noon, all else lie down in the middle of the day.”
Charles Burney (1726–1814) first seen 1770 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Music, Men and Manners in France and Italy, 1770 (1969) p. 94.
“I tell the Iranians that if they hear from people here or there that pictures of Ayatollah Khamenei are hung in Iraqi homes, it is a lie.”
Iyad Jamal Al-Din (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, And some before the speaker.”
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) said by 1839 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: W. M. Praed
“The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie, Blended in dust together; where the slave Rests from his labours; where the insulting proud Resigns his power; the miser drops his hoard; Where human folly sleeps.”
John Dyer (1699–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... confess now- could you lie with the wife of your friend? could you debauch his sister? could you defraud a poor creditor? could you by gambling rejoice in the outwitting a novice of all his possessions?- No! why then thou art a silly fellow, incumbered with three abominable inmates; to wit- Conscience, Honesty, and Good-nature”
Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780) first seen 1779 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (from vol 2, letter 43: 17 Oct 1779, to Mr M___ ).
“A man’s best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.”
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Monckton Milnes (lord Houghton)
“No visitors shall yonder valley find. Except the spirits of the rain and wind: Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed In this dim crypt, where shelved around us lie The mummied authors.”
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But has man's political skill marched hand-in-hand with his technical and scientific skill? Man can chain lightning to his command-can be control the society in which be lives? The answer is No! The political skill of man has been far outstripped by technical skill, and what lie has made he cannot be sure of controlling.”
Sukarno (1901–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have to stop thinking that you're in charge and start thinking that you're having a dance. We used to think we're smart [...] but nobody is smarter than the Internet. [...] One of the things we learned pretty early on is "Don't ever, ever try to lie to the Internet – because they will catch you. They will de-construct your spin. They will remember everything you ever say for eternity.”
Gabe Newell (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No days you can borrow, no time you can buy. No trust in tomorrow. It's a lie.”
Don McLean (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm not going to lie and say I wasn't really thin at one point, because I was. But it had nothing to do with not eating. I'm not saying that I have more problems than everyone else, but people's weight fluctuates, and five or ten pounds is a lot on me.”
Nicole Richie (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When on the ground red apples lie In piles like jewels shining, And redder still on old stone walls Are leaves of woodbines twining.”
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To climb the career ladder in modern America, you are expected to lie: about race, about crime, about men in dresses.”
Steve Sailer (born 1958) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Our Culture of Lying, Taki's Magazine, August 18, 2021
“It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about these responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.”
Peter Singer (born 1946) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface To The 2011 edition, p. xi
“Moreover, the lie that the film propagates claiming that I would equate Israel with Nazi Germany is abhorrent. I have never made such a reprehensible equation.”
Joseph Massad (born 1963) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Massad, in "Intimidating Columbia University" in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, on the short film Columbia Unbecoming concerning claims of mistreatment of students with opposing viewpoints. (2004)
“I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.”
D. L. Hughley (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Near the eastern gate of the mosque lie two very big idols of copper connected together by stones. Every one who comes in and goes out of the mosque treads over them. On the site of this mosque was a budkhānā that is an idol-house. After the conquest of Delhi it was turned into a mosque.”
Ibn Battuta (1304–1368) said by 1368 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter III (tr. Mahdi Hussain, 1976, p. 27)
“Manuel stared at the place where Piet had been. The man he had known so little would now lie in this place far beyond the moon of Islam and the cross of Rome and the hammer of Marx, in a territory open and without plan, beyond man and his encasing theories, his filters, beyond the closed rooms of the civilized mind.”
Gregory Benford (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here lie my thirty-thousand Jews.”
Paul Blobel (1894–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A life is just one letter away from a lie.”
Neil Strauss (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But mothers lie. It's in the job description.”
John Green (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed.”
Robert Lowell (1917–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tragedy obviously does not lie in a conflict of Right and Wrong, but in a collision between two different kinds of Right...”
Peter Shaffer (1926–2016) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Equus (Longman, [1973] 1993), p. 11
“The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is a story about me.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone, we would be able to fire half the police force, and in six months the prisons would be all half empty.”
John Hagee (born 1940) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fish Gate" sermon (September 2, 2007)
“Reason has moons, but moons not hers Lie mirror'd on her sea, Confounding her astronomers, But, O! delighting me.”
Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused — hence all the old tales of elfin Kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. … That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source