Quotes about lying
lying gentleman world
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit. Marcus Aurelius
lying inspiration mean
The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.
lying real men
There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
lying character men
Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.
lying greatness men
A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.
lying heart feet
Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms--and to hold on to it--that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur Marc Levy
lying feelings hiding
I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything. Marc Jacobs
lying heart witness
The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others. Rosemary Mahoney
lying motive ill
In the motive lies the good or ill. Samuel Johnson
lying men wish
A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
lying book library
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.
lying please-me deceit
What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s
lying deceit talent
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
lying party mind
Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
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.
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