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:
“Mole dog,
I wish your mother would wake you up
and you wouldn’t lie there like the PietÃ
wearing your cross on your nose.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 23:10,11.