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• “… the media lie, having monopolized moral assessments, takes the form of good while attempts to reveal it take the form of evil. Distraught demagogues manipulate the masses by promising them all kinds of earthly good, without taking into consideration the laws of history. p. 696”

  Alexander Zinoviev (1922–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The propaganda apparatus of Stalin and Brezhnev seems, in comparison [to the media lie], a game of amateur forgers. p. 695”

  Alexander Zinoviev (1922–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Now that we're alone we can talk prince man to man though you lie on the stairs and see no more than a dead ant.”

  Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But the beauty is not the madness Tho’ my errors and wrecks lie about me. And I am not a demigod, I cannot make it cohere.”

  Ezra Pound (1885–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I came into politics because I love this country, I think its best days still lie ahead and I believe deeply in public service, and I think the service our country needs right now is to face up to our really big challenges, to confront our problems, to take difficult decisions, to lead people through those difficult decisions so that together we can reach better times ahead.”

  David Cameron (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We're all gonna lie, we're all gonna cry, and we're all gonna take painful shits. [loud cheer] Yeah. You could be man of the year or woman of the universe. You're gonna be in your bathroom one day, goin' "Aah! Ugh! Are there glass shards in my anus?! Aah!" Somewhere, Halle Berry is clutching her Oscar, goin' "Aah! Aah! Why me? I'm an Oscar winner!”

  Dane Cook (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I'm comfortable apart, it's all written on my chartAnd I take what's given me, most cooperativelyI do what people say and lie in bed all dayAbsolutely horrified, I hope you're satisfied”

  Elliott Smith (1969–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundless And the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.”

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement ; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.”

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.”

  Louis Kronenberger (1904–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication.”

  Sam Harris (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Every lie haunts our future.”

  Sam Harris (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Towards the end of the night, as trucks rumbled In the streets, you stirred, cuddled to me, And spoke my name. Your voice was the voice Of a girl who had never known loss Of love, betrayal, mistrust, or lie.”

  Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance.”

  Diogenes Laërtius wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Tertullian

• “We have been conned again. The Israeli elections, we are told, mean that the dream of "Greater Israel" has finally been abandoned...But it is a lie.”

  Robert Fisk (1946–2020) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Another Brick in the Wall, April 4, 2006

• “When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.'.”

  Dylan Moran (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If you're a young man, you know, you live in a sexual tyranny anyway and your penis is Kim Jong. Sex decides everything. You can have a car crash. You lie in the ditch thinking: "What is the erotic twist in the situation? I can't quite seem to see it yet".”

  Dylan Moran (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I don't think there is any doubt, if there ever was . . . that Saddam Hussein does have weapons of mass destruction. Biological weapons that they discovered were very clear evidence of not only the fact that he had them, but that he had lied and that he is continuing to lie.”

  Paul Martin (born 1938) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Calgary Herald, March 7, 2003

• “I realise it’s proved to people that I don’t love them. It’s dawning on me now that if I say I love someone… it’s like lying, really. As long as I’m taking it, the lie continues. I’ve got a lot of proving myself to do.”

  Pete Doherty (born 1979) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Sunday Times, 14 May 2006

• “For this last savior, man, I have lied as I lie now. But what is lying? Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can: I find no fault in this just man.”

  Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.”

  L. Neil Smith (1946–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The way the mathematics game is played, most variations lie outside the rules, while music can insist on perfect canon or tolerate a casual accompaniment.”

  Marvin Minsky (1927–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.”

  Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, line he has placed at our backs; the other, lie heavy with those of others, he has hung before.”

  Phaedrus (fabulist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Objective evidence is the ultimate authority. Recorders may lie, but Nature is incapable of it.”

  Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “After acting for so many years, do you know who you are anymore? Because actors are liars basically, you lie about who you are to an audience.”

  Stephen Colbert (born 1964) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Stephen Colbert to Viggo Mortensen, The Colbert Report September 18, 2014

• “The other stunner that came out of the committee hearings was what the committee called the "big ripoff". The former president raised a quarter of a billion dollars off the big-lie, for a so-called "election defense fund", that investigators say, never existed... and this time we promise NO FRAUD.”

  Stephen Colbert (born 1964) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Fight The Fraud Of The Former Fight The Fraud, Which Fought The Fraud Of The First Fraud Fund (via YouTube video 46,288 viewsJun 15, 2022)

• “Seeing the play (A Lie of the Mind) clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see hope at the end of this play. People talk about how dark the play was, but I feel like, if you really look at the darkness, you’re able to go through it, and you realize that you can handle dark moments in life and that everything will be all right.”

  Ethan Hawke (born 1970) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The New York Times (2010-01-27)

• “An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.”

  Henry Wotton (1568–1639) first seen 1612 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reliquiae Wottonainae (1651). In a letter to Velserus, 1612, Wotton says, "This merry definition of an ambassador I had chanced to set down at my friend's, Mr. Christopher Fleckamore, in his Album".

  Also quoted by: Sir Henry Wotton

• “Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.”

  John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!”

  Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) said by 1695 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “By generalization of methods developed by Kamefuchi, O'Raifeartaigh, and Salam, conditions for renormalizability of general gauge theories of massive vector mesons are derived. ... It is shown that all theories based on simple Lie groups (with the one exception of the neutral vector meson theory in interaction with a conserved current) are unrenormalizable.”

  Abdus Salam (1926–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.”

  Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) first seen 1886 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Difficult People (1886)

• “Not everyone knows when to be silent and when to go. It not infrequently happens that even diplomatic persons of good worldly breeding fail to observe that their presence is arousing a feeling akin to hatred in their exhausted or busy host, and that this feeling is being concealed with an effort and disguised with a lie.”

  Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Letter (1887)

• “As I shall lie in the grave alone, so in fact I live alone.”

  Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!”

  Colley Cibber (1671–1757) first seen 1707 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Double Gallant, Act I, sc. ii (1707).

• “I, who am dead, have ways of knowing Of the crop of death that the quick are sowing. I, who was Pompey, cry it aloud From the dark of death, from the wind blowing. I, who was Pompey, once was proud, Now I lie in the sand without a shroud; I cry to Caesar out of my pain, "Caesar beware, your death is vowed.”

  John Masefield (1878–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Beneath our feet and o'er our head Is equal warning given: Beneath us lie the countless dead, Above us is the heaven! Death rides on every passing breeze, And lurks in every flower; Each season has its own disease, Its peril every hour.”

  Reginald Heber (1783–1826) said by 1826 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: At a Funeral", No. I (1827)

• “Where other gods might have advocated making life a garden, Voorstod’s God promised the garden only after death, preferably violent death. Then might the faithful lie about on the greensward sucking grapes and fucking virgins, so the prophets promised.”

  Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It would cost little to march them out into the desert . . . to have them dig, with their last strength, a pit large enough for all of them to lie in (or even dig it for them!), and, leaving them buried there forever and forever, to come back to the walled town full of new intentions, new resolutions.”

  J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?”

  J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale.”

  Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Of the Earth, of the Mother, my heart with her heart in accord: As I lie mid the cool green tresses that mantle her breast I begin with the grass once again to be bound to the Lord.”

  George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.”

  James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the Devil's booth are all things sold Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.”

  James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…”

  Mick Jagger (born 1943) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Wild Horses" (co-written with Keith Richards), on Sticky Fingers (1971).

• “Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.”

  Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “All night long I lie Tossing and wakeful, and I come.”

  Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “So, on the bloody sand, Sohrab lay dead. And the great Rustum drew his horseman’s cloak Down o’er his face, and sate by his dead son. As those black granite pillars, once high-rear’d By Jemshid in Persepolis, to bear His house, now, mid their broken flights of steps, Lie prone, enormous, down the mountain side — So in the sand lay Rustum by his son.”

  Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If God in his wisdom have brought close The day when I must die, That day by water or fire or air My feet shall fall in the destined snare Wherever my road may lie.”

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The King's Tragedy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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