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Lying Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how…
- The heart does not lie.
- Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
- Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
- Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
- We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
- But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
- Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of…
- Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art…
- What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From…
- The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which…
- It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
- It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to…
- The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by…
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