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“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”
Anaïs Nin (disputed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific.”
Donald Trump (misattributed) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There is no record of Trump ever saying this; sometimes "People magazine, 1998" is incorrectly given as the "source" of this quotation — snopes.com; truthorfiction.com
“Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.”
Ludwig van Beethoven (attributed) first seen 1817 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Mme. Streicher, in 1817, or 1818, after having dismissed an otherwise good housekeeper because she had told a falsehood to spare his feelings. in Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Lud…
“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”
Michel de Montaigne (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.”
Joseph Goebbels (misattributed) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Goebbels in Publications Relating to Various Aspects of Communism (1946), by United States Congress, House Committee on Un-American Activities. No reliable source has been located, and this is probably sim…
“The lives of trees lie only in the barks, And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would lie in bed the night before a new school and decide who I was going to be. It would usually be based on someone I admired from the school before.”
Josh Lucas (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall; Did I not see, did I not feel, That one Great Spirit governs all. O heaven, permit that I may lie Where o’er my corse green branches wave; And those who from life’s tumults fly With kindred feelings press my grave.”
Robert Bloomfield (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Banks that slope to the southern sky Where languid violets love to lie.”
Sarah Helen Whitman (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.”
Thomas Brooks (Puritan) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.”
Margaret Junkin Preston (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men are so accustomed to lie, that one can not take too many precautions before trusting them — if they are to be trusted at all.”
Marguerite de Navarre (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An honest men, the outstanding intuitionist of our age, and a prime example of what may lie in store for anyone who dares to follow the beat of a different drum.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Julian Schwinger in his obituary of Feynman, Physics Today (February 1989)
“Some of them pretend to be disabled or lie that they are orphans just to be able to get sympathy and money. So for the beggars it should not be an issue any more, they should be taken off the streets.”
Asenaca Caucau wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A leader isn't made, he is born. And Juka was a leader: he was able to lead the masses, he had that chemistry. People loved him, stood by him, there is no need to lie: everybody gathered around him.”
Jusuf Prazina (1963–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have peppered two of them: two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face; call me horse. Thou knowest my old ward: here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me--”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you! She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well: Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live.”
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) said by 1637 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room.”
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) said by 1637 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Upon my burned body lie lightly, gentle earth.”
Beaumont And Fletcher (active around 197) bartlett, Public domain source
“Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,--health, peace, and competence.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I see before me the gladiator lie.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.”
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“A lie never lives to be old.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. . . . We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.”
Pliny The Younger (61–105) said by 105 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“a lie has no legs”
English proverb wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“as you make your bed, so you must lie in it”
English proverb wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas”
English proverb wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“if you lie with dogs you will get fleas”
English proverb wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“you make the bed you lie in”
English proverb wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Should trans people be discriminated against when it comes to housing or employment? Of course not. Should trans people be stripped of their human rights, or denied personal safety? Again: of course not. But the statistics don't lie: men as a group pose a risk to women and girls, as a group. Of course, all men aren't rapists, voyeurs or flashers, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary.”
J. K. Rowling (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.”
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source