"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred"

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"

"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings"

"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth"

"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth"

"A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on"

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music"

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is lie that makes us realise truth"

"The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits"