Quotes with lie-detector

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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Alexander Pope Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Callimachus O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.
    Epigrams Epigram 14; translation from J. W. Mackail (ed.) S
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • Bret Harte O'er the trackless past somewhere lie the lost days of our tropic youth.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • George Farquhar Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Quentin Crisp Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Colley Cibber Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!
    The double gallant
    Colley Cibber
    English actor-manager, playwright and poet (1671 - 1757)
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  • C. Cibber Oh!how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!
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  • Adlai Stevenson II On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Demick One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Martin Amis Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
    Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2014) 42
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • William James Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Charles Churchill Our real wants in a small compass lie.
    Independance (1764)
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • William Shakespeare Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Publilius Syrus Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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