Home / Topics / Lying Quotes

Lying Quotes

Browse 12355 quotes about Lying.

Lying Quotes

“Nature admits no lie.”

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.”

Heart Lying Nature Perfect Judgment Models Gains Rely Copying Gateways Helm Stout

Book:The Craftsman's Handbook

Source: The Craftsman's Handbook

“One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”

“The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.”

Lying Nature Shapes Creating Absolutes Abstract

Book:Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

“O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.”

Eye Lying Mother Waiting Nature Secret Patient Bosoms Gracious

Author:Margaret Junkin Preston

“All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.”

Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.”

Made Eye Lying Nature Sleep Sky Green Staring Laziness Going To Sleep Brightness

Book:Master Humphrey's Clock

Source: Master Humphrey's Clock