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Lying Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
- If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's…
- In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
- Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of…
- Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
- The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
- Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is…
- Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,…
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