Lying Quotes - Page 12

• Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Book, Truth Is

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• What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it by accident. It seemed like a waste of whatever detailed lie I was going to have to come up with.

  Sloane Crosley

  Annoyed, Purpose, Waste

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.112, Portobello Books

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• The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

  Colum McCann

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.114, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Hearing, Towns

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.43, Barron's Educational Series

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• Smoke You stand infront of me, pretending to be solid, but you are nothing more than smoke and mirors. You said you'd never leave, that you would care for us forever, but now you claim you cannot stay? That you've been called away. When you go, who will i turn to when it all crashes down? Tell me who. Then tell me, how I can believe anone again, if all your promises have been lies.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Forever, Promise

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• Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Science, Night, Men

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• Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows of only me. But are they empty promises? I stare into his eyes, as into a crystal ball, but I cannot find forever, only movies of yesterday, a sketchbook of today, dreams of a shared tomorrow. His eyes whisper secrets. But are they truths or fairy tales? I wonder if even he knows.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Eye, Yesterday

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• ...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

  Aravind Adiga

  Men, Phones, Cells

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• Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, Meditation, Shapes

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.336, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sometimes destiny lies just outside of our reach.

  Alyson Noel

  Destiny, Sometimes

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.425, Pan Macmillan

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• Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?

  Zadie Smith

  Giving Up, Believe, Dirty

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

  Jim Butcher

  Love You, Greatness, Roots

  Jim Butcher (2005). “Furies of Calderon”, p.332, Penguin

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• At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Inspirational, Deceit, Belief

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• The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Light, Overcast

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• Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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• If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.

  Mary Karr

  Wall, Husband, Love You

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• I will never lie again.

  William Faulkner

  Never Lie

  William Faulkner (1999). “Novels, 1957-1962”

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• Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Greatest Fear, Anticipation, Our Greatest Fear

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• She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Art, Hands, White

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.153, Carcanet

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• It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt; we have to scrutinize our views, not take them on trust. No virtue attached to blindly accepting orthodoxy, however 'venerable'.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Responsibility, Views

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• In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

  Dean Koontz

  Commitment, Age, Culture

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• So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I knew the answer, but how could I be sure? I didn't know, and I didn't have any way to find out. Guys don't talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.

  Kami Garcia

  Thinking, Guy, Answers

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• One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

  Paul Klee

  Angel, One Day, Sides

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• Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Christmas, Couple, Cancer

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows.

  Shel Silverstein

  Moving, Lions, Want

  Shel Silverstein (1963). “Uncle Shelby's story of Lafcadio, the lion who shot back”

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