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“Of ancient stringed instruments there are, we may roughly say, two broad types; in one the strings are stretched across a sound-box and lie parallel to it—this we may call the ‘’ type, though including, for our present purpose, the various forms of and ; in the other the strings are attached to the upper board of the sound-box and rise vertically from it—this is the ‘harp’ type.”
Francis William Galpin (1858–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The new proprietors [of New Jersey] inveigled many over by this tempting account of the country: that it was a place free from those three great scourges of mankind—priests, lawyers, and physicians. Nor did they tell a word of a lie, for the people were as yet too poor to maintain these learned gentlemen.”
William Byrd II (1674–1744) first seen 1728 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina (wr. 1728–36; pub. 1841); reported in Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Therapy of Distance", American Heritage, vol. 27, no. 4 (June, 1976), p. 23
“When you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)”
Davis Grubb (1919–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The rich and those in position of power should fear God, help people and be ready to account for everything. I could remember that my mother was always eager to render all accounts no matter how small the amount might be. She loved giving detailed account about every spending. She won’t lie and she hate liars.”
Humuani Alaga (1900–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t buy into your heterosexual traditions. We know that last claim is a lie because in some ways we all do buy into these traditions, it’s very difficult not to.”
Frances Goodman (born 1975) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rodney, Seph (31 March 2016), South African Artist Nails It with Sculptures Made from Thousands of Press-Ons, Hyperallergic, retrieved 23 March 2025.
“It was a historic moment for South African football when Thembi Kgatlana scored our first goal in the tournament four years ago. It was a proud and memorable moment for the team and the entire nation. Seeing her make such an impact on the world stage inspired me and reminded me of the incredible opportunities that lie ahead in this year’s World Cup.”
Melinda Kgadiete (born 1992) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Helping the Team is Top on My Agenda – Melinda Kgadiete Speaks Ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup,JULY 1, 2023,Mamelodi Sundowns FC
“The former president is a “bigot” who lives by the motto that if you tell a lie often enough people believe it.”
Norma Anderson (born 1932) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Colorado Republican is suing to kick Trump off the ballot. She says she’s worried for democracy’s survival Retrieved 9 April 2025
“The biggest myth is that we aren’t telling certain stories because the audience is not ready for them, which is a lie”
Zikhona Sodlaka (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction’s roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever, And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind.”
Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lament for a Wavering Viewpoint", Pocketful of Wry (1940), pp. 89–90
“I weep those dead lips, white and dry, On which no kisses lie, Those eyes deserted of desire, And love’s soft fire. I weep the folded feet and hands, Held fast in linen bands; Still heart, cold breasts—for them my dole: God hath the soul.”
Vance Thompson (1863–1925) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Little Song"; M'lle New York, vol. 2, no. 1 (November 1898), n.p.
“They lie and get mad when you don't believe them....something he finally admitted to online 8 years later.”
Cynthia Morgan (born 1991) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cynthia Morgan reveals why she has refused to reach out to Burna Boy, retrieved on 09 January 2025
“I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest?”
George Hunter White (1908–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Sidney Gottlieb, reminiscing about Operation Midnight Climax. Cited in J. D. Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate (New York: Times Books, 1978), p. 101
“I don’t dream. I don’t have nightmares. I’m gifted in that I can lie down and sleep within a minute anywhere I am, any time of day.”
Chuck Yeager (1923–2020) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life Advice from Chuck Yeager" (2009)
“The car was now ascending rapidly towards the pass up across the huge tumbled slopes, ravines, and cliffs that lie like outworks of the enormous wall. Seen from this great height they were in themselves comparatively insignificant, but they at least suggested the vastness of the bastions of which they were no more than buttresses.”
Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The real and only satisfactory motive for submission does not lie in superficial things, but in the deep, still current of faith that comes from God direct, and bears the soul along.”
Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...Even in the most intimate forms of writing, people still followed established conventions and wrote what they felt was expected of them. They could lie to their friends and family, even to themselves.”
David A. Bell (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not wrong to presume that people today would obtain their rebirth in hell, or the realms of preta or animal, is it? The reason why is that they kill living beings, steal other people's belongings, pursue obscenities, lie, and drink alcohol. It is better to think that there is no means to redeem them anymore.”
Shoko Asahara (1955–2018) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mahayana Sutra, 1988, quoted in Watanabe 1998, p. 86
“In addition, the decree has exposed the barefaced lie that the Abacha loot was money saved for the Government of Nigeria”
Femi Falana (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Winds are raging fierce and high, Lurid lightnings wreathe the sky, Thunders roll and night is nigh, Ships 'mid storm-toss'd breakers lie At the ocean's will. Little ones there are who weep, Wives who weary vigils keep, When all else have gone to sleep. Father! to yon angry deep "Say Thou, Peace, be still.”
Jessie Saxby (1842–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Duty, that grey ash of a burnt-out fire, That lie between a woman and a man!”
Stephen Phillips (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you're a writer, you do get pulled toward that, attracted toward that idea of duality, because it is what attracts you to language. The idea of language as not just attentive to the surface matter of experience, but to the other things that might lie underneath, is why we write. (2006)”
Luisa Igloria (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today Waste Warriors has several projects working across tourist destinations in Himachal Pradesh. My heart will always lie in the Dharamshala but that project has reached a very difficult point,”
Jodie Underhill (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who, in your view, should have the power to draw the line between a “lie” and “free speech”? Government officials that want to stay in political power or the people that can hold them accountable ?”
Brendan Carr (born 1979) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 5 September 2024 tweet
“. I want to tell you that it is not enough; time will tell. If you told somebody that APC would come and take power in Nigeria so soon, you would say it is a lie. So let us keep our fingers crossed and watch Nigeria.”
Ayo Fayose (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The issue of some people coming from other countries is a lie. Even if there are foreigners involved, 95 per cent of those perpetuating this act are our own people; they were born and bred here.”
Dikko Umar Radda (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What matters? What is worth establishing and maintaining? Survival. Only survival. Individual survival is first; then comes the survival of the family, the clan, the tribe. These are immediately comprehensible. Beyond them lie ever larger and more diffuse, long-term loyalties.”
M. A. R. Barker (1929–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not all Italian journalists lie. But some of us, in different eras, have always lied. We lied on behalf of the newspaper owner, especially when the owner's number one interest was not to sell news. We lied out of deference to the ruling political power. We lied to favour the opposition. (p. 51)”
Giampaolo Pansa (1935–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Venn diagrams can help us see ourselves, where our interests lie, and how those interests influence our communication.”
Aliza Licht wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How many hopes lie buried here”
Inez Beverly Prosser (1895–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The problem is that... connectionism has become synonymous with... back-propogation. ...[T]hat... type of network... occupies... a small corner in the... space of possible network models. ...[A]dequate models of most likely lie in a less explored part of the space...”
Gary Marcus (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe there are a number of similarities, common struggles to change social attitude. But, unlike the racial struggle, the LGBT community, for the most part, has had the option of the closet – to stay hidden, to live the lie. And, I think in the long run, that has lengthened our struggle. Without that option, we would have had to fight harder and sooner.”
Marianne K. Martin (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s a satisfaction you get from going to a school, talking to the children, and seeing their reaction and their anticipation. A 12-year-old boy in eastern Kenya even told us, ‘I used to think scientists lie, but now I believe in science.”
Susan Murabana wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Collaboration is everything. The answers and solutions to our problems lie in the people next to us. The only difference between stagnation and progress is our willingness to collaborate.”
Joseph Nguthiru first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacob's Ladder Africa event, 2024
“It is easier to want a better bed than it is to lie in it and wonder what within us has driven away every partner that lay in our own bed at one point or another”
Siyanda Mohutsiwa (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom in my country today is far from having achieved her goal. The stones of her prison lie at her feet, but her jailers still surround her, bristling with arms that, ironically, democracy's arsenal — America — supplies.”
Eva Estrada Kalaw (1920–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s important to know where your strengths lie and solely focus on that. That’s why when starting a business, It is vital that you partner with people that compliment the skills that you have.”
Rethabile Ramaphakela (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I have opportunity to sit where you’re sitting and I can cross question Adv Johnson, I will prove to you it’s a lie, if that’s what she told you. The arrest of Khumalo is a project to stop criminal investigations in Gauteng. The letter from the minister to disband PKTT is a project to stop criminal investigation in Gauteng”
Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mkhwanazi vows to prove Khumalo was arrested to thwart investigations 7 October, 2025
“When we qualified, I told everyone it was possible and we could win it. I'm thrilled we achieved it together as a team, and I look forward to the opportunities that lie ahead”
Marlène Kasaj (born 1996) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TP Mazembe Exclusive: Kasaj's Goal Makes Boumehdi a Villain on Home Soil, While Thelma Describes the Win as a Dream,25 November 2024
“Historical novels show us how the origins of many present-day problems lie in the past; they are vehicles for the necessary journeys that nations must take to be healed; they help us reimagine ourselves in the present day”
Fred Khumalo (born 1966) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fred Khumalo on His Novel, Dancing The Death Drill, and the Resurgence of Historical Fiction 6 August, 2018
“I was so depressed. I went through a two-year depression because, when I am not doing this (acting), I do get sad. And so, I'm not even going to lie. If I am not doing what I love, I get sad.”
Chichi Letswalo (born 1981) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chichi Letswalo: I went through a two-year depression Times Live (20 October 2017)
“I’ve always said that I don’t want any magazine shoot or interview to be about the sexualization of my female body. I’m so liberated now because I know that I’m taken seriously as an actress. When I die tomorrow and somebody asks, who is that? The answer will always be the actress. Not the girl with the breasts and dreadlocks. My strategy has always been to lie low.”
Samkelo Ndlovu (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am an example of the dangers that lie ahead if we fail as a country to document and teach our indigenous languages.”
Mavis Kuukua Bissue (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.”
Lewis Hine (1874–1940) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Social Photography; How the Camera May Help in the Social Uplift", Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction at the Thirty-sixth Annual Session held in the City of Buffalo, New York, June 9-16, …
“We were victims of a lie”
Viola Fletcher (1914–2025) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Viola Ford Fletcher, oldest living Tulsa Race Massacre victim, publishes memoir 4 July, 2023
“People being real. It's got to be real to make me laugh. Either it's real, or someone's told me a bold-face lie. I think it's funny because if they think I believe that, they must be crazy”
Kountry Wayne (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hate equality. It is the lie of the prophets. No people is equal to another. No man is equal to another. I love the exceptional precisely because they are the exception.”
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Homosexuality is not a sin but it is a lie from the devil.”
Miriam Quiambao (born 1975) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Miriam Quiambao apologizes to LGBT community over remarks on homosexuality and religion". Manila Bulletin. April 30, 2012.
“Every lie, every piece of fake news, every form of propaganda that is manufactured and shared by people is like a disease or a poison that will kill everything that is good and just about our beautiful nation.”
Leila de Lima (born 1959) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/01/24/1665150/full-text-de-limas-privilege-speech-rise-fake-news
“when i lie down i am unable to get up”
Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Include Freedom to Lie.”
Risa Hontiveros (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source