• 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: 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, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.391