Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Hemingway

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

Ernest Hemingway

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

Ernest Hemingway

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

Ernest Hemingway

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

Ernest Hemingway

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

Ernest Hemingway

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

Ernest Hemingway

Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

Evita Peron

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

Ezra Koenig

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths.

Eugen Herrigel

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

Eugen Herrigel

The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed-more I cannot say.

Eudora Welty

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

Grover Cleveland

Honor lies in honest toil.

Graham Chapman

Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government

Graham Greene

It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

Graham Greene

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Graham Greene

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

Graham Greene

What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins--impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity--cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all. Then, in his innocence, he had felt no love for anyone; now in his corruption he had learnt.

Graham Greene

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

Graham Greene

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

Goran Persson

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

Giulio Andreotti

If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.

Gisele Bundchen

I'd be lying if I said, 'No,' to wanting a lot of kids.

Harriet Lerner

As many have observed, it is easy to tell a lie, but it is almost impossible to tell only one.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.

Harper Lee

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

Harper Lee

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

Halldor Laxness

Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.