Famous quotes containing the word lies:
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (18041881)
“Oh youth, youth! You dont worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universeeven sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! Thats one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the populationthe intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree its the fools, no matter where you go in this world, its the fools that form the overwhelming majority.”
—Henrik Ibsen (18281906)