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- I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given…
- The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and…
- A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will…
- I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is…
- Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with…
- It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity…
- The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace,…
- George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
- If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
- There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
- One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
- Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.
- A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits…
- The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one;…
- I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
- I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.
- The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
- The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a…
- A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
- Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his…
- It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
- You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.
- A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
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- 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