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Lying Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- [In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend]…
- Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
- Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
- The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the…
- My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that…
- The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
- You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing…
- My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that…
- A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
- Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.
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- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius