Bill Hicks Quotes

American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

Many, many people exaggerate their accomplishments, blame their failures on others, and misrepresent reality in order to make themselves look better. This behavior is ubiquitous—sometimes intentional, more often subconscious. In ordinary life, we tolerate it, mutely or not, hoping that we are not as bad as the person whose lies we are listening to.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

The "styles" are a lie.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.