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“For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.”

Men Eye Lying Speech Various Every Man His Eyes Hypocrisy Covered Disguise Veils Folds Concealed Brows Countenance Deceitful

Book:Cicero's Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties; also his Cato Major, an essay on Old Age; Lælius, an essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate. Literally translated, with notes ... by Cyrus R. Ed

Source: Cicero's Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties; also his Cato Major, an essay on Old Age; Lælius, an essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate. Literally translated, with notes ... by Cyrus R. Ed

“You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.”

Want Wells Matter Political Lying Stars Rocks Politician Speech Rock Star Political Speeches

Author:Bob Geldof

“Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.”

Thinking Men Humans Made Life Is Lying Social Knowing Products Speech Human Life Physiological

Book:Mist: A Tragicomic Novel

Source: Mist: A Tragicomic Novel

“It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.”

Lying Speech Instant

Book:The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.”

Source: Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name

“The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.”

Writing Believe Lying Force Secret Style Speech Conscious Verbs Adjectives Nouns Pedigree Parts Of Speech

Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

“Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.”

Lying Figures Speech Packs Imagery

Author:Plutarch

“We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.”

Ends Lying Speech Presses Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Misinformation Free Press

Author:Barack Obama

“The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.”

Country Lying Rights Speech Independence Bills Freedom Of Speech Declaration Declaration Of Independence Bill Of Rights

Author:George Soros

“PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.”

Two Character Lying Found Taken Speech Regard Speakers Superficiality

Book:The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

Source: The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

“True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.”

Men Truth Lying Cases Speech Errors Suspects Attributes Falsehood Untruth True And False

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.”

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.”

Men Reason Lying Evil Speech Shame Tongue Wicked Significance Deceiving Monstrous Depraved

Author:Jon Jones

“To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso 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.”

People Spirit Lying Consciousness Streets Cold Drink Holy Speech Conscience Raises Tables Slavery Servant Holy Spirit Hypocrisy Tails Severe Champagne Racket Dine Serfs

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in Aristotle, in one place or another. Galileo makes Simplicius say so, but shows the absurdity of that speech by answering all truth is contained in a lesser compass, namely, in the alphabet.”

Shows Truth Lying Truth Is Speech Absurdity Compass Alphabet

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.”

Ifs Should Lying House Church Five Society Minutes Speech Statements Manners Five Minutes

Book:The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the restless, noisy spirit of the day, and encourage to speech the soft voices within you that timidly whisper of the peace of the quiet night; and occasionally look out at the quiet stars. The night will soothe you like a tender mother, folding you against her soft bosom, and hiding you from the harm of the world.”

World Looks Stills Self Spirit Lying Mother Night Stars Peace Voice Sleep Forget Quiet Speech Harm Hiding Nurse Within You Restless Bosoms You Again Noisy Folding

Author:Max Ehrmann

“Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.”

Writing Made Lying Decision Speech Letters Surrender Petitions

Author:Nicholson Baker

“Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.”

Different Lying Speech Corporations Freedom Of Speech Different Times

Author:Carl L. Becker

“It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.”

Has Beens Lying Purpose Speech Forgotten Communicate Employed Concealing

Book:Seven Servants: Four Works

Source: Seven Servants: Four Works

“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.”

Years Humans Political Lying Leader Heard Speech Political Speeches

Book:Carnets: 1935-1942

Source: Carnets: 1935-1942

“Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.”

Lying Speech Mouths Blessed Instruments Commandments Idle Truth Love

Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.”

Men Has Beens Ideas Light Lying Nations Stars Stupid Genius Speech Ideals Extraordinary Great Men Concealed Explorers Overlooked Ardent Guiding Stars

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.”

Men Made Lying Waiting Sound Conversation Speech Empty Made It Fallen Futility Blight Wait For Me

Book:Lord Jim

Source: Lord Jim

“Actually, you know who gave the shortest inauguration speech in history? George Washington. It was only like three minutes long. Well, sure. George Washington couldn't tell a lie.”

Knows Wells Long Lying Three Minutes Speech Inauguration

Author:Jay Leno

“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.”

People Men Way Years Humans Whole Facts Political Lying Interest Leader Accepting Heard Speech Importance Strikes Proof Destroyed Attributes Clown Hollow Gamble Political Speeches

Book:Notebooks, 1935-1942

Source: Notebooks, 1935-1942

“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”

Needs Humans Doe Soul Lying Song Sound Opinion Air Speech Empty Human Soul Disgrace

Book:Disgrace

Source: Disgrace

“We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.”

Men Believe Important Lying Purpose Speech Impression Sensations Magnifying

Book:Mist Niebla: A Tragicomic Novel

Source: Mist Niebla: A Tragicomic Novel

“I haven’t prepared my speech yet,” I sighed and Tove stood up. “What should I say about him?” “Well, if you plan to say anything nice, you’re going to have to lie,” Tove muttered as he walked over to his closet.”

Ifs Should Wells Lying Nice Plans Havens Speech Prepared Should I Closets Say Anything Stood Up

Book:Trylle: The Complete Trilogy

Source: Trylle: The Complete Trilogy

“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.”

Lying Time Silence Speech Eternity Shallow Silence Is

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.”

Should Mind Body Reality Lying Games Natural Meditation Speech Ambition Perfection Casts Emptiness Conditioning Stretching Sameness Actuality Fetters Finality

Author:Longchenpa

“Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.”

Should Lying Courses Waiting Speech Golf Assets Golfers Admirable Unspoken

Author:P. G. Wodehouse