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Martin Luther King, Jr.658
American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968Related quotes
“Historians may lie, but History cannot.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) British literary critic
Source: A Last Vintage, p. 172.
“To Live signifies to believe and hope — to lie and to lie to oneself.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Variant: A sign is anything that can be used to tell a lie.
Source: Trattato di semiotica generale (1975); [A Theory of Semiotics] (1976)
“I like big butts, and I cannot lie.”
Sir Mix-a-Lot (1963) American rapper
"Baby Got Back"
Song lyrics, Mack Daddy, 1992
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
"They," published in Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
Other works
“It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
“A lie never lives to be old.”
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Acrisius, fragment 59.
“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.”
Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach
Source: On Chesil Beach