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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Lying

"You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife."

Lying Wife Hearing
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Lying

"Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is."

Men Lying Angel
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Lying

"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep."

Lying Team Queens
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies."

Heart Eye Lying
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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
Lying

"Someday the lion is going to lie down with the lamb, but the lamb isn't going to get much sleep."

Lying Sleep Lambs
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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me."

Ideas Lying Choices
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Woodrow Wilson Politician
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"The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender."

Men Lying Educational
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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
Lying

"As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying."

Want Lying Philosophy
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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
Lying

"From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history."

Long Lying Steps
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it."

Lying Father Church
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
Lying

"After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities."

Lying Ambition Knowledge
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