What are lies?

Famous quotes containing the word lies:

    It lies not in our power to love, or hate,
    For will in us is over-rul’d by fate.
    Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

    Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed.—In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Oh what lies lurk in kisses!
    Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)