If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. - Adlai E Stevenson I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. - Adlai E Stevenson I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. - Adlai E Stevenson

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. - Maya Angelou Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. - Thomas Jefferson Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. - Malcolm Bradbury No mirrors in the real world had the ability to reach inside you the way these did. You could tell yourself that the mirrors were simply telling lies, but you'd be wrong. They took tiny truth...

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break. - J R R Tolkien What lies ahead of you is better than what you have already experienced. - Jaachynma N E Agu What lies ahead of you & what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you. - Mahatma Gandhi It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should beeven if it isn't what you expected. - Jim Butcher That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the spile, forget where I am or what lies ahead, only know I must reach her, protect her. I run wildly in the direction of the voice, heedless of danger, ripping through vines and branches, thr...

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself. - Jodi Picoult Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. - James Gleick

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception. - Mark Twain There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest. - Thornton Wilder Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti. - Libba Bray Everybody lies about sex. - Robert A Heinlein I a...

Everyone lies... It may not be about the same thing, but everyone does it. People do it to fit in, people do it to feel civilized, and there are many more reasons. You can be an honest person, and still be a liar. Everyone lies, including your God. If you don't believe so, then you are simply lying to yourself. - Lionel Suggs How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing. - Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite. - Jodi Picoult Blood is thicker than water, The young man said As he knifed his friend For a drooling old bitch And a house full of lies. - Ernest Hemingway I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'. - William Golding Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. - Jim Morrison

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie. - Victor Hugo Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, Nil superest ut iam possit obesse magis." (loosely translated: "He who lies on the ground can fall no farther. In me, Fortune has exhausted her power of hurting; nothing remains that can harm me anymore.") - Thomas Kyd

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation. - Aristotle Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. - Thomas Carlyle Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the gave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more. - Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. - Glenn Beck Sometimes I went and looked at my grave. The stone was up already. It was a simple Latin cross, white. I wanted to have my name put on it, with the here lies and the date of my birth. Then all it would have wanted was the date of my death. They would not let me. Sometimes I smiled, as if I were dead already. - Samuel Becke...

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang. - Richard Chamberlain With your face and your beautiful eyes and the coversations with the little white lies and the faded picture of a beautiful lie you carry me from your car up the stairs,and I broke down crying was she worth this mess? After everything and that little black dress.After everything i must confess...I need you <3'':) -Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium. - Marilyn Monroe Now then is my chance to find out what is of great importance, and I must be careful, and tell no lies. - Virginia Woolf ask no questions and you'll be told no lies - Charles Dickens History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies. - Oliver Goldsmith Ask us no questions and we'll tell you no lies. - J K Rowling There was an itchy lung for a last cigarette and an immense, magnetic pull toward the basement, for the girl who was his daughter and was writing a book down there he hoped to read one day. Liesel. His soul whispered it as I carried him. But there was no Liesel in that house. Not for me, anywa...

I tell so many lies, sweetheart," he said. "which one specifically? - Cassandra Clare He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies! - Simone De Beauvoir Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies. - Pete Hamill There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them. - Louanne Johnson The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down. - Geraldo Rivera I've told so many lies about my age I don't kn...

You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth. - Laurie Halse Anderson I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you. - Elvis Presley It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth. - John Grisham Don't spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth. - T F Hodge When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day. - William Makepeace ...

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. - Margot Asquith I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang. - Richard Chamberlain The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie. - George Eliot THE LUXE IS... Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899. - Anna Godbersen White lies are in chapter two of the bestfriend handbook. They are to be used sparingly and only under extreme circumstances. I'm pretty sure finding out your boyfriend of more than a year is a tota...

Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface. - Jodi Picoult Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance. - Tom Allen And taking her friend's hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman's heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it. - Guy De Maupassant I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath. - Tom Waits