#liar

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#always #better #fear #greater #grows

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aside #breeding #coarse #contempt #days

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affects #familiar #familiar things #finding #foreign

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#aided #ancient #beneath #came #diligent

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars. ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

#fears #hopes #liars #may #were

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form. ↗

— Paul Conrad

#art form #believe #form #i #i do

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#doing #familiar #familiar things #get #i

A liar is always lavish of oaths. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#lavish #liar #oaths

I'm not a liar. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#liar

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#hundreds #lot #melody #songs #sound