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Lying Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as…
- ...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire…
- Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a…
- There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and…
- The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
- This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
- It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special…
More Lying Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- 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