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Lying Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- A lie is an excuse guarded
- This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was…
- It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for…
- Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five…
- Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
- "Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
- Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
- A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your…
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- In delay there lies no plenty. — William Shakespeare
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt