Orson Scott Card Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Stories

  Orson Scott Card (1992). “The Changed Man: Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card”, p.198, Macmillan

• Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Sometimes, Enders Game

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.20, Macmillan

• Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Stupid, Fire

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.349, Macmillan

• I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

  Orson Scott Card

  Time, Lying, Love You

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Songmaster”, p.232, Macmillan

• You who speak languages, you are such liars.

  Orson Scott Card

  Liars, Lying, Language

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.516, Macmillan

• What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Lakes, Order

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.183, Macmillan

• Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Lying, Adults

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.18, Macmillan

• The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Secret, Way

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.62, Macmillan

• But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Believe, Stories

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.82, Macmillan

• Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

  Orson Scott Card

  War, Lying, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.50, Macmillan

• Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Heart, Cutting

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Earthfall”, p.10, Macmillan

• When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Powerful, Lying, Party

  Orson Scott Card (2012). “Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin maker”, p.19, Hachette UK

• I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Lying, People

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.33, Macmillan

• The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Simple, Air

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.178, Macmillan

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