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Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes.


Hillaire Belloc

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Matilda told such dreadful lies,
It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;
Her aunt, who from h...
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TONI MORRISON Just do it. Now.
M. YEATS It's all a pack of lies and the National Enquirer was told it was a pack of lies.
BERT FIELDS One ugly trick has often spoiledThe sweetest and the best;Matilda, though a pleasant child,One ugly ...
ANN TAYLOR The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the l...
COURTNEY MILAN Eyes shows lies.
TOBA BETA One ugly trick has often spoiled The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ug...
ANN TAYLOR No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
LEWIS CARROLL That was their last gasp on infringement.
JAMES WALLACE I could hear her gasp,
DOLORES JOHNSON We're basically down to our last gasp.
JEFF CONINE When people told jokes today, they never made me laugh. One look from my dog, and it made my day.
ELLYN GRACE No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled
ROALD DAHL What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone...
ROALD DAHL You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
ROALD DAHL True strength lies within the soul Ones drive, ambition, and self-control To succeed one must reach ...
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"There ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE We made poor decisions down the stretch. We shot too early, we took guarded shots.... I told my coac...
BERNIE PEARSON The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing
THOMAS MORE One ugly trick has often spoiled
The sweetest and the best;
Matilda, though a pleasant child...
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JAMES GILLEN How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of i...
VINCENT VAN GOGH It is engendered in the eyes; By gazing fed; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The worst lies are the ones you tell yourself.
JIM GENOVESE And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told...
DEYTH BANGER I knew it would come down to who made their shots. They made theirs down the stretch and we didn't m...
DOMINIC CRAYTON There are a lot of things to consider when we engineer a sidewalk. Some of them are quite expensive....
DAVE CERLANEK I told the players we need to win so that I can have the cash to buy some new ones.
CHRIS TURNER I'm one of the youngest ones,
CHRISTINA LEE There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by t...
TOM CLANCY There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by th...
TOM CLANCY This is a last-gasp, last-ditch effort,
DAN STEIN There was a big gasp for me at that point.
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SYDNEY J. HARRIS If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And ...
MARA WILSON Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
THEODOR ADORNO The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT L. STEVENSON A Lovers a liar, to himself he lies. The truthful are loveless, like oysters their eyes
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BILL PILGERAM We kept our composure down the stretch and made some big shots.
LOUIS AMUNDSON Help your loved ones find happiness because therein lies your own.
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MIKE KLEPPER But such as open their breast to unbelief on them is Wrath from Allah and theirs will be a dreadful ...
QURAN Mankind's greatest threat, lies only inches behind its eyes.
ENRIQUE VEGA The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
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BURAK TURNA He speaketh not; and yet there lies
A conversation in his eyes.
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BECKY FLYNN There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They'...
BIG BOI If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spit...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas on...
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe
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JOHN RZEZNIK If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dr...
ERROL MORRIS Before we drained out one another's forceWith lies, self-denial, unspoken regretAnd the sick eyes th...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Some books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it.
DAVID BADDIEL They got me on that one. I told them the only way they can get me is to trick me.
BRIAN KEMP If we have told lies you have told half lies. A man who tells lies merely hides the truth, but a man...
THE BRITISH CONSUL. We didn't knock down our free throws like we'd like to. You shoot 100 free throws on game day but yo...
BRIAN THORNTON In 1981, Matilda had her first filly foal and everything developed from there.
JUDY JACKSON One must always respect and acknowledge the Greed that lies within ones-self, for it is in the DNA o...
SAM OLIVER MCKAY It was a tough game the whole way. We made some key plays down the stretch.
CLARK PLICHTA A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be k...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it lo...
JOSHUA JACKSON Before we drained out one another's force
With lies, self-denial, unspoken regret
And the si...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Then I made a stupid mistake and looked up at him. His eyes met mine, and for a moment, his face was...
JULIE KAGAWA I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of ...
TOM LEHRER As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.
JESSICA KHOURY All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch ...
UNKNOWN We were down and we rallied, but we made critical mistakes down the stretch.
DALE LATIMER The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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JAMES W. LOEWEN Lucky ones understand that real and honest happiness lies in those moments, they are truly thankful ...
MYRAMUSIC I am such a snake. I gave each one a work assignment and saw how they performed. It made it very cle...
AMY VELTRI The one thing about 'Beautiful Creatures,' 'The Host' and 'The Mortal Instrument...
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BERTIE CARVEL He has such good ones.
JACKIE PECOR One bad general is better than two good ones
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ROBIN JARVIS No one from the administration has made such an effort
ANGEL FUENTES This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.
OSCAR WILDE They [Congress] didn't fix the right problem. It was done for political purposes. It is a dreadful b...
TOM COBURN Then one of my coaches told me to just enjoy it because it was the last time. So I was thinking abou...
IAN SHANNON Why do such lies spew from thy mouth?
ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR That was the difference - they made their shots down the stretch and we missed ours.
DONALD THOMPSON I've seen (Strother) go through stretches where nothing's gone in, but she had that one stretch wher...
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