Quotes with lying

Quotes 21 till 40 of 80.

  • Ben Jonson He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
    Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Walter Benjamin He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Redd Foxx Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
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  • Mark Twain I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Virginia Woolf I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Samuel Butler I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Butler I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • William Shakespeare I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Yves Saint-Laurent I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    French fashion designer (1936 - 2008)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Brigitte Bardot I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • George Sand I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Antoine Fuqua I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Benny Green I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Dale Carnegie If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • George Eliot Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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