"The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field."

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"The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field."

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

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Nothing, Secrecy

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Sanity is a cozy lie."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"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

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"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above."

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"Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode."

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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."

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"His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught."

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"And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear."

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"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"

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"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."

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

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

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

"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."

"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

Explore more quotes by Edmund Waller

"Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above."

"Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode."

"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."

"His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught."

"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."

"Stronger by weakness, wiser men become."

"How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!"

"And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear."

"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"

"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."