Things have value Because somebody buys them, Because somebody pays money; If you can find a buyer, Even a lie is worth a thousand yen..
In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of falsehoods ….
Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself..
I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying..
I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things..
A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to yo….
Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball..
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it..
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth..
To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of letters; to put it another, the essen….
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth..
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with..
Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words..
The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees..
Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control..
It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words, and perhaps the courage to speak with unlock….
The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description..
We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop..
There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past..
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is bef….
The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more ef….