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Lying Quotes by E. M. Forster
- [...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing…
- A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver…
- There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
- This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely…
- Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
- The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
- I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.
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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