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:

    “When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Job 7:4.

    “How clean the sun when seen in its idea,
    Washed in the remotest cleanliness of a heaven
    That has expelled us and our images . . .
    The death of one god is the death of all.
    Let purple Phoebus lie in umber harvest,
    Let Phoebus slumber and die in autumn umber....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)