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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when theres something they must have. - El

Nobody speaks the truth when theres something they must have. – Elizabeth Bowen

Other quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

Category:
Loneliness
Author
Elizabeth Bowen
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

Category:
Memory
Author
Elizabeth Bowen
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Deception/Lying
category

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth. – Robert Armstrong

Category:
Deception/Lying

Matilda told such dreadful lies,
It made one gasp and stretch ones eyes;
Her aunt, who from her earliest youth,
Had kept a strict regard for truth,
Attempted to believe Matilda:
The effort very nearly killed her. – Hilaire Belloc

Category:
Deception/Lying

Liars are always ready to take oaths. – Vittorio Alfieri

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Deception/Lying

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. – Francis Bacon

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Deception/Lying

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Whether youre winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You cant change because of the circumstances around you. – Cotton Fitzsimmons

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I live by Go big or go home. Thats with everything. Its like either commit and go for it or dont do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. Thats what I live by. Thats how I like it. – Paul Walker

Category:
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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be alert! Accidents hurt. – Author unknown

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