Famous Quotes & Sayings

Immanuel Kant

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

Immanuel Kant

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Immanuel Kant

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Jeaniene Frost

Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.

Jennifer Harbury

The problem, of course, lies with the realities concealed from us. This has always been the case. While the American public has slowly grappled with ongoing injustices visible within our own borders, it has long failed to discover and correct our government's abuses abroad. In the end, however, this is our government, and torture is being utilized in our names and supported by our tax dollars. We are responsible.

Jennifer Gilmore

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

Jennifer Garner

I've made my mind up that I will only do a film that I really, really love. I'm determined to lie low until a role comes along that really makes me want to work.

Jeff Buckley

I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.

Jean-Paul Sartre

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

Georges Braque

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

George Whitefield

Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable.

George Whitefield

If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.

George Sand

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.

George Sand

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

George Sand

Lying, like license, has its degrees.

George Saunders

I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.

Jeffrey Bernard

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

Jeffrey Bernard

It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger.

Jean Reno

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

Jean Racine

When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?

Jean-Luc Godard

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie,

Jean-Claude Juncker

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

Jean-Claude Juncker

When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

Jim Hightower

You have to learn to read between the lies.

Jerry Seinfeld

Maybe if we lie down our brains will work.