Charles-Louis Philippe quotes

Charles-Louis Philippe quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.”
-- Charles-Louis Philippe

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes #Air Quotes

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander”
“The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.”
“Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.”
“The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.”
“The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.”
“When something important is going on, silence is a lie.”
“He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it,”
“You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you..”
“Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.”
“Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.”

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