"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie."

-- Charles Edward Montague

#Lying Quotes #Taken Quotes #Left Out Quotes

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
“I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.”
“A free society that allows each individual to seek his or her own selfish ends (without deliberately trying to harm anyone else) will produce a state in which everyone's interest is optimized without any individual knowing in advance what that state might be.”
“What sweet delight a quiet life affords.”

Source : William Drummond, P. C., Peter Cunningham (1852). “Poems by ... W. D. [Edited, with a life by P. C., i.e. Peter Cunningham.]”, p.199
“Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.”
“Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.”
“I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability â€” the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.”

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