A Quote by Horace

Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.

Wilfrid Laurier

TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

Ambrose Bierce

I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

Maxwell Caulfield

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

Aberjhani

It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

Conrad Black

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

Helen Keller

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

John Maynard Keynes

People who care about facts and truth must remember to seek out original sources rather than trust mendacious reporters and media outlets.

Mollie Hemingway

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Russell Baker

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Mark Twain

I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.

Roma Downey

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.

Theodor Haecker

The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in the plants.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

Agatha Christie

[Johnny Depp] a wonderful artist, and such a talented person. I got along with him, splendidly. He's charming and wonderful to work with. He's a dream.

Amber Heard

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