lie quotes

“A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. ”

“A lie never lives to be old. ”

“No lie ever reaches old age.”

“Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.”

“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”

— Victor Hugo

“Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.”

— Victor Hugo

“A library implies an act of faith.”

— Victor Hugo

“One believes others will do what he will do to himself.”

— Victor Hugo

“We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ”

— Victor Hugo

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

— Franz Kafka

“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”

— Franz Kafka

“In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.”

— Franz Kafka

“There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. ”

— Franz Kafka

“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”

— Franz Kafka

“One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.”

— Franz Kafka

“It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.”

“He who can believe himself well, will be well.”

“Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.”

“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.”

“Art lies by its own artifice.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

— William Shakespeare

“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“ Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that. ”

— Robert Redford

“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.”

— Robert Redford

“The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.”

— Robert Redford

“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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