Pietro Aretino Quotes
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Quotes to Explore
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
Oscar Hammerstein II
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. Forbes
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
Babasaheb
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Vernon Howard
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
Ed Gillespie
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
Pat Metheny
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
Uma Thurman
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
Bassem Youssef
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
A. N. Wilson
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. Mencken
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I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.
Jack Lowden
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Kids hate anyone who is different.
Tamsin Egerton
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. Travers
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A key to McMaster's thinking is his 1997 book, 'Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam.'
Peter Bergen
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.
Lauren Bacall
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It is natural that one cannot understand deep and hidden things. Those things that are easily understood are rather shallow.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
Hal Clement
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino