Lie

Lie

To lie is to deliver a false statement to another person which the speaking person knows is not the whole truth, intentionally.

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Famous quotes containing the word lie:

    “All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Away before me to sweet beds of flowers.
    Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “O, the world hath not a sweeter creature! She might lie by an emperor’s side and command him tasks.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)