Women Lie Quotes

• Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

  William Feather

  Women, Lying, Age

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies... a man's lie is, "I'm at Tony house, I was at Kenny house!" A woman lie is like, "It's your baby!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Baby, Lying

  "Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker". TV Special, July 10, 1999.

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• WOMEN lie about sex. It doesn't matter how many partners she says she's had before you. She's lying.

  Richard Madeley

  Sex, Lying, Matter

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• The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

  Joyce Brothers

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• Behind every good woman lies a trail of men.

  Tracy Bonham

  Lying, Men, Good Woman

  Song: Behind Every Good Woman, Album: Down Here, 2000

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• In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

  Carol Gilligan

  Lying, Responsibility, Ties

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.131, Harvard University Press

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• If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Lying, Greatness

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• Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

  Jay-Z

  Lying, Men, Numbers

  Song: Reminder, Album: The Blueprint 3, 2009

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• And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!

  John Betjeman

  Loneliness, Lying, Clouds

  John Betjeman, “Business Girls”

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• Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

  Graham Chapman

  Lying, Government, Holy Grail

  "Fictional character: Dennis". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1975.

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• The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological structure which maintains that woman is made for the possession of man in a sense in which man is not made for woman, and that celibacy, per se, is a state of superior purity. Nature and common sense (not metaphysical sense) demonstrate that there is no good reason why any man or any woman should take, claim, or wield "lordship" over another.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Lying, Men, Common Sense

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• I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfections. If you could get outside yourself, borrow my eyes for just an instant... There is only beauty.

  Tessa Dare

  Lying, Eye, Mirrors

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• You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

  Chinua Achebe

  Baby, Lying, Men

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

  Sela Ward

  Women, Lying, Getting Older

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• The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

  Chinua Achebe

  Baby, Children, Lying

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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