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Lying Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
- In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is…
- I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are…
- He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the…
- What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let…
- Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie…
- Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an…
- A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
- In the motive lies the good or ill.
- Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
- It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
- I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
- The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
- In a man’s letters his soul lies naked.
- I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that…
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