Lying Quotes - Page 22

• I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Writing, Heart

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.13, GENERAL PRESS

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• True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

  John Green

  Love, Romantic, Beautiful

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• I won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we’d come to New York.

  James Patterson

  New York, Looks, Faces

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.202, Hachette UK

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• Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Real, Moments

  Elizabeth Berg (2001). “Never Change”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Thinking, Lap

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Williams (2013). “Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel. William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Reclam Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel”, p.94, Reclam Verlag

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• I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.

  Douglas Coupland

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dew, Common, Rosebuds

  "Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody".

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• In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Distance, House, Sides

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Choice”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Cordelia

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

  Max Brooks

  Kind, World War Z

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, Crown Pub

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• Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she love one of them most of all.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Book, Home

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

  Anne Lamott

  Art, Kids, Demon

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.68, Penguin

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• As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.” “And you're still not sorry,” I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. “No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sorry, Want, Gale

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• That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Liars, People, Facts

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.188, Penguin

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• If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right—it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.

  Daniel Quinn

  Differences, Might, Found

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.28, Bantam

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• Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  House, Empty, Cigarette

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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• The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Years, Breathing

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• There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.

  Thornton Wilder

  Stars, Journey, Thinking

  Thornton Wilder (2007). “Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater”

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• Hello, hello.” Magnus swept toward them..."Alec, my darling, Clary. And rat-boy." He swept a bow toward Simon, who looked annoyed. "To what do I owe the pleasure?" "We came to see Jace," Clary said. "Is he all right?" "I don’t know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?" "What –," Alec began, and broke off as Magnus laughed. "That’s not funny." "You’re so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can’t find anything. He’s compulsive.

  Cassandra Clare

  Moving, Boys, Annoyed

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• Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

  Marcel Proust

  Rely Upon, Needs, Done

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.600, Wordsworth Editions

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• Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Dirty, Flower

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.136

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• After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

  Walter de La Mare

  Men, Chinese, Nests

  Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)

  Kathryn Lasky

  Truth Is, Creatures

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• In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.

  Kristin Cashore

  Should Have, Deceit, Ends

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.417, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They can't lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place." He sighed. "They're not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help.

  Cassandra Clare

  Regret, Years, Snakes

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.599, Simon and Schuster

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