Lying

Famous quotes containing the word lying:

    “To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people’s consciousness, the people’s conscience, freedom and so forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen—this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Into her lying down head
    His enemies entered bed....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)