With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.

My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.

In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

I'd be lying if I did not say that being a woman of colour is something I am always mindful or aware of.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.

I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?

Look, [Hillary Clinton] is been proven to be a liar on so many different ways. This is just another lie.

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.

Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.

He is ready to cleanse you, It is sin, after all, that lies at the door and blocks you way to the Savior.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.

Share ownership of your ideas. The more people who lie awake in bed thinking about your idea, the better.

Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

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