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Lying Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or…
- To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard…
- The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
- Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
- Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
- Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
- You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles…
- The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
- The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
- I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a…
- To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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