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Lying Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and…
- The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to…
- He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the…
- But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to…
- I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find…
- Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage…
- Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains…
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
- We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget…
- A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies,…
- We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red…
- Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
More Lying Quotes
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- 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