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Lying Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and…
- You know what lies are for.
- What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.
- A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.
- Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you…
- I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.
- I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have…
- Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.
- When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath.…
- I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have…
- But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page…
- I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have…
- Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the…
- Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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