H. G. Wells Quotes, Lying Quotes

Advertising is legalized lying.

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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

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The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

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I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!

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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lies in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks. It lies in the willingness for people to work hard.

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Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

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The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

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A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

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The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

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Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.

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The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

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