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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
— H.L. Mencken
History is a lie commonly agreed upon.
— Oscar Wilde
Today was also The Grass is Always Browner on the Other Side Day - a day to celebrate what you have, and not to be envious of others.
— George Mahood
Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I am my own heaven and hell!
— Friedrich Schiller
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
— Ashwin Sanghi
I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
— Michael Dirda
Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.
— Jack Gantos
All history is a lie!
— Robert Walpole
I'd love to fly, especially with the gas prices right now.
— Joel Gretsch
Isn't one man's truth another man's lie?
— Amy Jarecki
History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
— Tomichan Matheikal
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
There is something so arbitrary about prizes.
— Steve Toltz
History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
I would never lie to anyone about history.
— Philippa Gregory
He wants me to stay in London and go to restaurants and theaters and marry him like a reasonable person.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
I would love if film doesn't disappear, if we can have film forever so we would have all these brushes, all these possibilities available.
— Emmanuel Lubezki
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
— W. H. Auden
My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
— Sally Pearson
No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
— Voltaire
A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.
— Aminatta Forna
The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.
— Vladimir Lenin
He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [ ... ] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22]
— John Burnside
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
— Jean Cocteau
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks.
— Haruki Murakami
If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.
— V.S. Naipaul
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
— Joseph Brodsky
History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.
— Courtney M. Privett
The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.
— Michael Feinstein
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.
— John Cusack
