Lies

Famous quotes containing the word lies:

“Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.”
—William McIlvanney (b. 1936)

“It took nine years, and a great depression, and two wars ending in defeat, and one surrender without war, to break my faith in the benign power of the press. Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.”
—Martha Gellhorn (b. 1908)

“Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)