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- You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom…
- Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
- Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats…
- Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of…
- Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep…
- Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.
- Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my…
- Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and…
- Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come…
- The let-alone lies not in your good will.
- Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we…
- Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost…
- But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to…
- I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".
- Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay…
- O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger…
- Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my…
- I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but it…
- At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.
- Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.
- My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured…
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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