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Lying Quotes by George Eliot
- Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied…
- The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
- I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
- You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried…
- There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must…
- Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
- Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls…
- Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything…
- The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
- The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
- Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them…
- Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to…
- If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
- A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it…
- We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our…
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