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“2216. He that lies down with the Dogs, must rise with the fleas.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) first seen 1733 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1733) : He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.
“Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.”
Kenneth Boulding (1910–1993) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 252, quoted in Leonard Silk (1976) The Economists. New York: Basic Books. p. 208
“Be held truthful that your lies may count.”
Addison Mizner (1872–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When questions of “class” interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination.”
James Connolly (1868–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Labour in Irish History (1919), p. 15
“Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable.”
Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the gutters lies the black man, dead, And where oil flows blackest, the streets run red, And there was He who was born and came to be, Who lived and died without liberty”
Bobby Sands (1954–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As we are so wonderfully done with each other We can walk into our separate sleep on floors of music where the milkwhite cloak of childhood lies”
Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A great challenge lies ahead in the modeling and verification of systems that are subject to timing constraints.”
John A. Stankovic wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the present time man's path lies through space, and Suprematism is a colour metaphor in its infinite abyss. [1916]”
Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'On space and Suprematism', Kasimir Malevich, 1916; as cited in Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson, London 1990, p. 58
“I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white, besides me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity. I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea lies before you.”
Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In the 'Catalogue 10th State Exhibition', Kasimir Malevich, Moscow, 1919; as quoted in Autocritique, – essays on art and anti-art 1963 – 1987, Barbara Rose, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York, 1988, p. 71
“Here lies a most beautiful lady, Light of step and heart was she; I think she was the most beautiful lady That ever was in the West Country.”
Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To me the motif itself is an insignificant factor; what I want to reproduce is what lies between the motif and me.. .Other painters paint a bridge, a house, a boat.. .I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Claude Monet, in an interview, 1895; as quoted in: Paul Hayes Tucker et al. (eds). (1999) Monet in the Twentieth Century. London: Royal Academy of Arts/Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. As cited in: , "About There, or Therea…
“My only merit lies in having painted directly in front of nature, seeking to render my impressions of the most fleeting effects, and I still very much regret having caused the naming of a group whose majority had nothing impressionist about it.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in his letter to , June 21, 1926; as cited in: Levine, Steven Z. "Monet's Series: Repetition, Obsession." October (1986): 65-75.
“[I]n our civilized society I must lead the life of a savage. I must free myself even from governments. My sympathies lies with the people; I must go to them directly. I must draw my wisdom from them, and they must give me life. For that reason I have just embarked on the grand, independent and vagabond life of the bohemian.”
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) first seen 1850 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter, (1850) to his friend Francis Wey; as quoted in Georges Riat Gustave Courbet', Parkstone International (2015).
“Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.”
John Constable (1776–1837) first seen 1821 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from John Constable's letter to Rev. John Fisher (23 October 1821), from John Constable's Correspondence, part 6, pp. 76-78
“Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it. And this is mainstream media. There should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies.”
Sean Penn (born 1960) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Referring to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, in an appearance on the HBO show Real time with Bill Maher (March, 2010)
“Virtue lies in the middle ground.”
José Rizal (1861–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Alas! It is well written, "The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.”
Ernest Bramah (1868–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the stars but in our lousy genes. Or in the failure of one’s conquest of one’s self. The fault, dear Brutus, is in our fear of knowing ourselves.”
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah've never felt anything about countries, other than total disgust. They should fuckin abolish the lot of them. Kill every fuckin parasite politician that ever mouthed lies and fascist platitudes in a shell-suit and a smarmy smile.”
Irvine Welsh (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar. Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell? Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway, far, Before you agonise them in farewell?”
Laurence Hope (1865–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.”
Philip Pullman (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Somewhere beneath her hurried curse, A corpse lies bounding in a hearse; And friends and relatives disperse, And are not stirred.”
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies.”
Megan Whalen Turner (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The substance of socialist democracy lies in efficient socialist organisation of all society for the sake of every individual, and in the socialist discipline of every individual for the sake of all society.”
Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Symmetry is a vast subject, significant in art and nature. Mathematics lies at its root, and it would be hard to find a better one on which to demonstrate the working of the mathematical intellect.”
Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Symmetry (1952)
“I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.”
Johannes Kepler (1572–1630) said by 1630 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died, as quoted by Steven G. Krantz, Brian E. Blank, Calculusː Multivariable (2006) p. 126.
“By Nebo’s lonely mountain, On this side Jordan’s wave, In a vale in the land of Moab, There lies a lonely grave.”
Cecil Frances Alexander (1818–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Daffodil; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A Pack of Spanish Lies sent abroad in the world, first printed in the Spanish tongue, and translated out of the original. Now ripped up, unfolded and by just examination condemned, as containing false, corrupt and detestable wares worthy to be damned and burned.”
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520–1598) first seen 1588 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Title of a pamphlet published by Burghley on Spanish claims over what happened during the Spanish Armada's attempted invasion of England in 1588.
“Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.”
Edward FitzGerald (poet) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: XXVI (1st ed. 1859)
“The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.”
Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) said by 1380 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed by Dorothy Day in On Pilgrimage (1948) p. 161
“People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The future of great business lies in man’s comprehension of the principle of Balance in Natural Law and his determination to work WITH it instead of against it.”
Walter Russell (1871–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Little white lies shining like baby teeth in a shallow grave.”
Charles Stross (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My stomach flip-flops. No electronics? That’s heavy. In fact it’s more than heavy: to compute is to be, and all that. I don’t mind going without clothes, but being without a microprocessor is truly stripping down. It’s like asking a sorcerer to surrender his magic wand, or a politician to forswear his lies.”
Charles Stross (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Almost everything in the pop culture lexicon of vampirism is basically fiction—and fiction is the art of telling entertaining lies for money.”
Charles Stross (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Agent First’s world, the ineluctable law of power is that you rule or you die. To Agent First, the puppet show of democracy that Cassie believes in is obviously a child’s tissue of attractive lies, set before the cattle to enable the secret rulers to dominate them without fear of uprisings.”
Charles Stross (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in – particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.”
Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , Faber and Faber, 1989, page 258 (ISBN 9780571200733).
“Glenn Beck: Frog Killer … Glenn Beck Lies About LGF … Beck portrayed this as if I accused him — literally — of killing a frog.”
Charles Foster Johnson (born 1953) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: September 24, 2009
“My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.”
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Art of the 20th century, Part 1 by Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Ingo F. Walther, Christiane Fricke (2000) p. 178.
“The responsibility lies with the mentality of the meat industry that treats both animals and "human capital" like machines ... human beings cannot be human (much less humane) under the conditions of a factory farm or slaughterhouse.”
Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Islam] leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims lies in their observance of the God-made law.”
Abul A'la Maududi (1903–1979) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1967 Islamic Law and Constitution, Mawdudi's writings collected and translated into English by Khurshid Ahmad, p. 77; quoted in: Charles J. Adam, "Mawdudi and the Islamic State," in John L. Esposito, ed., Voices of Resu…
“There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.”
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 1954) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Erdoğan: Twitter denilen bir bela var", NTV (June 2, 2013)
“The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the President and other powerful people.”
Mitch McConnell (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government, which they did not like”
Mitch McConnell (born 1942) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: told the Senate on January 19 according to What will Mitch McConnell do? February 12, 2021 by David Axelrod
“The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own heroes — ideals for heroes — and they don't need to be told elaborate lies.”
Jessica Lynch (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Expect nothing more from philosophy than a voice, language and grammar of the instinct for Godliness that lies at its origin, and, essentially, is philosophy itself.”
Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) said by 1829 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Philosophy: To Dorothea,” in Theory as Practice (1997), p. 421