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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Lie, Sickness, Words

"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Lie, Old

"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Lie,

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Lie, Lies, Silence

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Lie, Memory

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Opinion

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Lie, Destiny, Fathers, Fatigue

"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Lie, Superiority, Compliment, Lying

"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

Lie, Contradiction

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Lie, Injury, Lying

Explore more quotes by Boyle Roche

"Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud."

Philosophy

"Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?"

Politics

"The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump."

Danger

"Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother."

Family

"The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens."

Past

"We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech."

Freedom

"All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand."

Future

"The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full."

Philosophy

"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."

Lie