Quotes about lying
lying men mirrors
In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives. Samuel Johnson
lying greatness watches
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
lying men soul
In a man’s letters his soul lies naked.
lying mean men
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
lying looks care
At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular. Ruth Gordon
lying ability
I personally don't have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse. Rufus Wainwright
lying government practice
The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it's like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren't equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go. Ronald Reagan
lying america
America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet.
lying light dragons
He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun! Robert Jordan
lying iron anvils
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
lying absurd
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
lying taken ridiculous
The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.
lying doe looks
Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.
lying age wheel-of-time
Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
lying knowing portions
You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
lying fiction strange
It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it. Robert James Waller
lying car
Cars and women are a lot alike. They lie about the milage. Rodney Dangerfield
lying love-you lovely
As one needs happiness so have I needed love; that is the deepest need of the human spirit. And as I love you utterly, so have you now become the whole world of my spirit. It is beside and beyond anything that you can ever do for me; it lies in what you are, dear love - to me so infinitely lovely that to be near you, to see you, hear you, is now the only happiness, the only life, I know. Rockwell Kent
lying book reality
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines - not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality. Robertson Davies
lying roots sense-of-humor
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
lying heart mean
My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot. Robert Southwell
lying silly winter
Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.
lying men sight
Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.
lying heart men
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent. Robert Payne
lying self justice
...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made? Robert Penn Warren
lying blessed eye
But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.
lying eyelashes laughing
I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you." Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing. Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh. Sarah Rees Brennan
lying fall long
Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa moaning faintly all day long. That is what I am ready for. I cannot engage in physical activity of any sort or my head will fall right off. Is that what you want Nick? Because if so, I find that hurtful.
lying perfection delight
The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds. Wallace Stevens
lying imagination achievement
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
lying liars swear
Liars are always most disposed to swear. Vittorio Alfieri
lying way hours
The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way. Virgil
lying night views
The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.