You lie—under a mistake,
For this is the most civil sort of lie
That can be given to a man's face. I now
Say what I think.


Translation of Calderon's Magico Prodigioso, Scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

You lie—under a mistake, For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

You lie—under a mistake, For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

You lie—under a mistake, For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

You lie—under a mistake, For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.