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Lying Quotes (page 52)

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. Mark Twain
Paul McCartney quote: "Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in..."
Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head. Paul McCartney
John Mayer quote: "Anything other than yes is no, anything other than stay is go,..."
Anything other than yes is no, anything other than stay is go, anything less than I love you is lying. . . John Mayer
The fields are black and ploughed, and they lie like a great fan before us, with their furrows gathered in some hand beyond the sky, spreading forth from that hand, opening wide apart as they come toward us, like black pleats that sparkle with thin, green spangles. Ayn Rand
Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one. Terry Prachett
Stephen King quote: "And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out."
And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out. Stephen King
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise. Maya Angelou
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet—when they..."
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet—when they do, their victims lie strewn around. Elizabeth Bowen
The Poem That Took The Place Of A MountainThere it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain. He breathed its oxygen, Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table. It reminded him how he had needed A place to go to in his own direction How he had recomposed the pines, Shifted the rocks and picked his way among clouds For the outlook that would be right, Where he would be complete in an unexplained completion: The exact rock where his inexactness Would discover,... Wallace Stevens
A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order. Albert Einstein
Friedrich Schiller quote: "Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish..."
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play. Friedrich Schiller
Iris Murdoch quote: "One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to..."
One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own. Iris Murdoch
William Butler Yeats quote: "I must lie down where all the ladders start, in the foul rag..."
I must lie down where all the ladders start, in the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. William Butler Yeats
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink George Orwell
V. S. Naipaul quote: "The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we..."
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. V. S. Naipaul

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