Lying Quotes - Page 253

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
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [869]
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]
William Shakespeare, Andrew Williams (2013). “Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel. William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Reclam Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel”, p.94, Reclam Verlag
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. 21
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [251]
1598 Dogberry to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.1, l.208-12.
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 31
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
William Saroyan (1970). “Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon. (2. Print.)”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1925). “The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself”
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.
'Table Talk' (1782) l. 420 (Perjury)
And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.
William Cowper (1805). “Poems”, p.93
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
"Thanatopsis". Poem by William C. Bryant, first published in "North American Review", September 1817.
William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”
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