Source: Here on Earth
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries
“All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie, too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't.”
The Darkest Part of the Forest
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 7 (p. 138)
“Lie and Lie until you succeed.”
TEDx talk at Oberoi International School, Mumbai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUisKJ7hnwA
“Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”
Source: The Road
“The problem of independence did not lie in a change of forms but in change of spirit.”
Our America (1881)
Context: America began to suffer, and still suffers, from the tiresome task of reconciling the hostile and discordant elements it inherited from the despotic and perverse colonizer, and the imported methods and ideas which have been retarding logical government because they are lacking in local realities. Thrown out of gear for three centuries by a power which denied men the right to use their reason, the continent disregarded or closed its ears to the unlettered throngs that helped bring it to redemption, and embarked on a government based on reason-a reason belonging to all for the common good, not the university brand of reason over the peasant brand. The problem of independence did not lie in a change of forms but in change of spirit.
To John Dean in April 1973 http://books.google.com/?id=JpRAAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22If+you+are+going+to+lie+you+go+to+jail+for+the+lie+rather+than+the+crime+So+believe+me+don't+ever+lie%22&pg=PA42. Dean was due to testify before the Senate Watergate Committee, which he did on 25 June 1973.
1970s
Cry! Cry! Cry!
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)
