"Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer."

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"Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer."

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Lie, Lies

"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Lie, People, Right

"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it."

Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historian

Lie, Bed

"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."

Roone Arledge, American Journalist

Lie, Network, News, Past

"Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?"

Adela Florence Nicolson, English Poet

Lie, Lies, Now

"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies."

Le Corbusier, Swiss Architect

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"This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all."

Jon Voight, American Actor

Lie, Country, Want

"Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president."

Linda Tripp, American Celebrity

Lie, America, Being

"Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline."

Julius Schwartz, American Editor

Lie, Lies

"While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph."

Lewis Hine, American Photographer

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

People

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Virtue

"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

Argument

"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."

Nature

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Man

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."

Time

"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

Effort

"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."

People

"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."

Nature

"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

Dream