James Russell Lowell Quotes about Lying

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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

James Russell Lowell

Truth, Lying, Different Faces

James Russell Lowell (1886). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold... 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer.

James Russell Lowell

Summer, Money, Lying

James Russell Lowell, Nathan Haskell Dole (1893). “The Early Poems of James Russell Lowell: With Biographical Sketch”

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

James Russell Lowell

Hate, Lying, Love Is

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.111

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.

James Russell Lowell

Lying, Believe, Writing

James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.162

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

James Russell Lowell

Lying, Sleep, Men

James Russell Lowell (1853). “Poems”, p.220

The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast; Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.

James Russell Lowell

Children, Lying, Light

"The Changeling". Poem by James Russell Lowell, 1879.