Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Adornetto

i swore i could feel my lies slithering inside me like snakes, wrapping themselves around me and constricting. i felt they were squeezing the air from my lungs, tightening around my heart.

Alexander the Great

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

Alexander Theroux

I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.

Alexander Smith

Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

The prosecutors -- I don't know how them people can live with themselves because of the lying that they do.

Theodore Roosevelt

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

Phyllis McGinley

Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind.

Aaron Paul

I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.

Aaron Neville

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

Aaron Allston

The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.

A. S. Byatt

Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.

A. S. Byatt

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction .

A. E. Housman

White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.

A. E. Waite

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

A. E. Housman

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

A. E. Housman

The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

A. E. Housman

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

A. E. Housman

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

A. E. Housman

White in the moon the long road lies.

Aeschylus

It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

Aeschylus

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Aeschylus

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Adrienne Rich

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Adrienne Rich

How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying. To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.

Adrienne Rich

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

Agatha Christie

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

Agatha Christie

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

Adrian Mitchell

You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam.

Adrian Mitchell

Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff

Adam Weishaupt

The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation. None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.

Adam Osborne

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Adam Rapp

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.