Virginia Woolf Quotes, Lying Quotes

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Lying Quotes , Heart Quotes

In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.

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Some books are lies frae end to end.

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Love Quotes , Lying Quotes

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

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Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

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Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

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A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

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... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

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Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Lying Quotes , Desire Quotes

Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Breed out of the contagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Lying Quotes , Eye Quotes

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Lying Quotes

Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

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Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Lying Quotes , Tree Quotes