"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes #Deceit Quotes

“In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.”
“Sheâ€™d always wondered what it would feel like to stand on one end of a ballroom and watch a handsome, powerful man make his way to her. This was as close as sheâ€™d ever come to it, she supposed. Standing at Dianaâ€™s side. Imagining.”
“Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.”
“Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.”
“I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's his show and I'm just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a little tension, but I'm on my way out... I am here to serve your every need, King James.”
“If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.”
“Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!”

Source : Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library

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