A Quote by Voltaire

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

Voltaire

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

George Santayana

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

Sue Monk Kidd

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

Sue Monk Kidd

Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

James Darren

In general, I pack really simply. Every shirt that I pack is going to work with every pant that I pack and every sweater that I pack. So, I can mix and match easily.

Milo Ventimiglia

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

George R. R. Martin

At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.

Pete Postlethwaite

It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.

Anne Sexton

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

Tina Louise

Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters

Eminem

What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

Meat Loaf

You wouldn't catch me dead in a fanny pack.

Goldust

Basically, we are pack animals. We may be evolving toward hive animals. The nature of the pack is that if all the eyes of the pack are on you, you are either the leader, or you are lunch. So it's a basically hazardous situation to have the eyes of the pack upon you. And I think that's really visceral. I think that's bred in the bone. That's species - deep.

Katherine Dunn

There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal.

Etgar Keret

I mean, the conservative movement in this country has been selling a pack of lies for a long time.

Sam Seder

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