"Do not let your deeds belie your words,……" — St. Jerome
"Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?"
More Belie Quotes
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them.… — Thomas Jefferson
- I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day… — Esai Morales
- It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them.… — Henry David Thoreau
- I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard… — Ben Jonson
- Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. — Tom Robbins
- The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or… — Anne Lamott
- And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare Sonnett… — William Shakespeare
- Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as… — Holly Black
- Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. — Tom Clancy