Best lying & honour Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.”

Lying Waste Honour Compliment Wasting Time Hollow Tedious

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

“For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?”

Eye Lying Atheism Positive Atheism Honour Neighbour

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts.”

Men Heart Eye Lying Speak President Integrity Iraq Honour Tolerate Saddam Forbidden Hussein Truthfulness

Author:Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

“All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.”

Men Humans Children Form Lying House Secret Divine Garden Proportion Honour Reverence Men Women Divine Beauty

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]”

Lying Profit Honour

Author:George Herbert

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