Quotes of: True-lies Keyword

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. Proverbs 29:12

Biblical

If you want some lies to be believed wrap them up in truths.

Danish

The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men look for it in what is remote.

Japanese

The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is remote.

Japanese

Sometimes what you think is true, what you think is safe and good, is actually evil in disguise. Evil is so enticing, so deceiving, that you don't know its evil until it's wrapped you up and caressed you as a lover. You gaze into its eyes, enraptured...

Beyond The Veil

When the filly, the maiden, the boy and the warrior are ready to take up their Destinies, each will know it. The filly will become a mare, the maiden a woman, the boy a man. The Warrior, however, will pick up a stick and walk from his mother, his peo...

Sisters of Light

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for...

Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer

Beyond the shadows of our doubt lies an ocean of extraordinary possibilities; things that could have been or could be; if we had the faith to see them through. Our doubts betray and deflect us from our true selves and deprive us of our chances to lov...

A Walk with Prudence

The raw elements of gold and silver are refined and purified by intense heat. The same is true for you and me. To attain the purest beauty of who we truly are…we all must be forged by fire. The struggles and trials we suffer and learn from are all ...

A Walk with Prudence

There is no limit as to what we can learn. Through study, we can learn from the past. Experience can empower us to handle the present. For those who desire to learn of the future, dreams hold a subtle key. Not all things we see, as we sleep, should b...

The Truth About Lies

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the t...

Philip Pullman

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Pr...

William Shakespeare

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Hale White

Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

She knew him as much as the knowing of her own heart’s secret: she was destined for the forest.

Love Lies Bleeding

I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

The Lies of Locke Lamora

She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.

The Lion Lies Down with the Lamb

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

The Lies of Locke Lamora