Lies

Famous quotes containing the word lies:

“Here lies my dear wife, a sad slattern and a shrew.
If I said I regretted her, I should lie too.”
—Anonymous. From H. J. Loaring’s Curious Records (1872)

“There is a hatred of lies and dissimulation that is rooted in a sensitive principle of honor, and there is another such hatred that is rooted in cowardice, inasmuch as lies are forbidden by a divine commandment. Too cowardly to lie....”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“He is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intellect,—what, for instance, it behooves a man to do here in America to-day with regard to slavery.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)