lie quotes

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.”

— Stephen Hawking

“I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.”

— Stephen Hawking

“A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably. ”

“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”

— Honore de Balzac

“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.”

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”

— Aldous Huxley

“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.”

— Aldous Huxley

“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. ”

— Aldous Huxley

“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ”

“I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ”

“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. ”

“It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.”

“When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“ In love we often doubt what we most believe.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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