While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior – don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Henrik Ibsen
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  2. I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. - Anne Rice

  3. ...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one. - Ally Carter

  4. If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence. - Toba Beta

  5. Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. - Charles Dickens

More Quotes By Henrik Ibsen
  1. You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

  2. To live is to war with trolls.

  3. A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

  4. I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

  5. It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

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