Edward Young Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Honesty, Lying

  Edward Young, Sir Herbert Croft, Sir Herbert Croft (5th bart), Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young ...”, p.134

• Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs.

  Edward Young

  Song, Lying, Dust

  Edward Young (1839). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.47

• Truth never was indebted to a lie

  Edward Young

  Truth, Lying, Literature

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.226

• A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Lying, Skills

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

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