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Lying Quotes - Page 253

I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak

I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night”, p.71

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.

William Shakespeare, Andrew Williams (2013). “Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel. William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Reclam Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel”, p.94, Reclam Verlag

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. 21

A very honest woman but something given to lie

'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [251]

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

William Shakespeare, Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1866). “Shakspeare's Sonnets never before interpreted: his private friends identified: together with a recovered likeness of himself. By G. Massey”, p.177

And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.

William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.47

Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

William Blake, Morton D. Paley (1998). “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, p.258, Princeton University Press

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.289, Pearson Education