Pierre Corneille Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• A liar is always lavish of oaths.

  Pierre Corneille

  Liars, Lying, Deceit

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Le Menteur, III. 5, p. 485-87, 1922.

• A liar is full of oaths.

  Pierre Corneille

  Liars, Lying, Oath

• Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

  Pierre Corneille

  Lying, Games, Hype

• One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

  Pierre Corneille

  Memories, Lying, Good Memories

• It takes good memory to keep up a lie

  Pierre Corneille

  Memories, Lying, Good Memories

• These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls!

  Pierre Corneille

  Lying, Gay, Mirrors

• Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

  Pierre Corneille

  Lying, Men, Brave

• A good memory is needed once we have lied.
  [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Memories, Lying, Lied

• A liar is always lavish of oaths.
  [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Liars, Lying, Oath

• The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.

  Pierre Corneille

  Death, Lying, People

  "The Liar". Play by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene ii, 1643.

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