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Lying Quotes by H.G. Wells
- Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
- I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a…
- A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.
- Advertising is legalized lying.
- Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
- Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
- An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
- No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have…
- There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I…
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