We Lie Quotes by Samuel Butler

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• Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we… — Samuel Butler
• We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to… — John le Carre
• What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands. — Unknown Author
• Maybe if we lie down our brains will work. — Jerry Seinfeld
• The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most… — William Cowper
• We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. — Eric Hoffer
• If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece… — Simonides of Ceos
• ... fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there-because we… — Masha Gessen
• While we lie tumbling in the hay. — William Shakespeare
• We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk… — Andrew Napolitano

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