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Lying Quotes by George MacDonald
- Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in…
- For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any moment on the…
- The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
- When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie…
- In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.
- I only know when I don't know a thing... . wisdom lies in that.
- Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If…
- My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be…
- To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say…
- I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of…
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