53 Metaphors for lay

It did not occur to him that a lie which is half the truth is the meanest kind of a lie.

The Lay of the Lost Critic, The Plaint of the Grand Piano, are capital specimens of the author's humour, and Christmas Eve of his true pathos.

But The Lay of the Lovelorn is a clumsy and rather vulgar skit on Locksley Halla poem on which two such writers as Sir Theodore Martin and Professor Aytoun would have done well not to lay their sacrilegious hands.

Virgin gold Lay hidden thereno richer was the dross.

Laid in this copy of his works is a sad letter, in the poet's handwriting, which perhaps has never been printed.

The laying out of the fish trap was his action and the catches are his field of labour.

The laying on of hands is a sort of gift of mine; let me try by such means to ease your pain.

Lay your hand upon your heart, and answer me, am I your wedded wife?

Benjamin Lay was a man of strong understanding and of great integrity, but of warm and irritable feelings, and more particularly so when he was called forth on any occasion in which the oppressed Africans were concerned.

in the little frequented sea in which the "Rover" lay, was a cry that quickened every dull pulsation in the bosoms of her crew.

A lie is so unworthy a warrior's mouth!"

Having been, through much anguish of flesh and spirit, taught that lying was a deadly sin, Toady rushed to the other extreme, and bolted out the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, at all times and places, with a startling abruptness that brought wrath and dismay upon his friends and relatives.

There was in the Zoroastrian thought only two rival principles in the universe, represented by Ormuzd and Ahriman, as the God of truth, and the father of lies; and the lie was ever and always an offspring of Ahriman, the evil principle: it could not emanate from or be consistent with the God of truth.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

It would have been, I am sure, one of the cases in which a lie would have been justifiablenay, praiseworthy, too.

piece o' money he mek he tek an' put some debblemen' on de under side, an' one o' his pootiess lies on top; an' 'e gilt dat lie, and 'e rub dat lie on 'is elbow, an' 'e shine dat lie, an' 'e put 'is bess licks on dat lie; entel ev'ybody say: 'Oh, how pooty!'

" "A lie is truth to those who only tell the truth.

Raleigh's most notable verses, The Lie, are a challenge to the world, inspired by indignant pride and the weariness of lifethe saeva indignatio of Swift.

The last and supreme lie in Bethmann-Hollweg's speech is the most insidious of all.

Consequently a lie is in its very nature the product of injustice, malevolence and villainy.

I have already made myself responsible for the statement: "Lying has always been the foundation stone of German policy."

Lies are great travellers, and welcome visitors in a good many homes, and no questions asked.

This must have been Kant's feeling when he said: 'A lie is the abandonment, or, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity of man.'" Dr. Martineau is not so rigid a moralist but that he is ready to agree with those easy-going theologians who find a place for exceptional falsehoods in their reasoning; yet he is so true a man in his moral instincts that his nature recoils from the results of such reasoning.

A lie is a statement that something is, which is not.

Since lying is sinful because a lie is always a lie unto God, the fact that a lie is spoken to an insane person or to a would-be criminal does not make it any the less a sin in God's sight.

53 Metaphors for  lay