deliberately-false

Updated: May 14, 2025

It is true that in that set pressure of her lip there might be cruelty, and, still more, the secretiveness which can harbour deceit; and yet, by the nervous workings of that lip, when relieved from such pressure, you would judge the woman to be rather by natural temperament passionate and impulsive than systematically cruel or deliberately-false, false or cruel only as some predominating passion became the soul's absolute tyrant, and adopted the tyrant's vices.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03