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Lying Quotes by Alexander Pope
- An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
- Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more…
- Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in…
- Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
- A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
- Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
- Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
- He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to…
- In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,…
- Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
- Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
- Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
- Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with…
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