Quote#Truth
You lie—under a mistake
Quote byPercy Bysshe Shelley · 1792–1822
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Translation of Calderon's Magico Prodigioso, Scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
English (original)
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.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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