Lying Quotes - Page 31

• Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, School, Errors

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• She was staring at you.’’ ‘‘What can I say? Irresistible.’’ ‘‘Shane, it’s not funny. I just—you should be careful.’’ ‘‘Always am.’’ Which was an absolute lie. Shane’s eyes fixed on hers, and she felt a burst of heat inside that crept up to burn in her cheeks. He smiled slowly. ‘‘Jealous?’’ ‘‘Maybe.’’ ‘‘No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

  Rachel Caine

  Jealous, Eye, Pulse

  Rachel Caine (2008). “Feast of Fools: The Morganville Vampires”, p.15, Penguin

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• The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

  Brad Meltzer

  Worst

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• Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Cradle, Bokonon

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• But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Eye, Light

  William Shakespeare (1840). “Poems”, p.28

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• My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Mind

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• Tell me he’s not talking to Brandon,” Claire said. “Um… Ok. He’s not talking to Brandon.” “You’re lying.” “Yeah. He’s talking to Brandon. Look, let Shane do his thing, okay? He’s not as stupid as he looks, mostly.

  Rachel Caine

  Stupid, Talking, Looks

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.176, Penguin

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• I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

  Patrick Marber

  Want, Telling The Truth, I Can

  "Closer". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Life, Men, Years

  FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Sep 20, 2013

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• I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

  John Steinbeck

  Liars, Loss, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.67, Penguin

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• To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apertheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

  Peter Singer

  Mother, Dog, Baby

  "Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals". Book by Peter Singer, 1975.

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• There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sweet, Pain, Real

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1384, Dell

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• If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

  Christine Feehan

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Truth

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Sea Storm”, p.191, Penguin

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• What is the best that lies within us? Of how much are we capable? None of us yet knows. An old Arabic legend tells of a rider finding a spindly sparrow lying on its back in the middle of the road. He dismounted and asked the sparrow why his feet were in the air. Replied the sparrow, "I heard the heavens were going to fall today." "And I suppose you think your puny bird legs can hold up the whole universe?" laughed the horseman. "Perhaps not," said the sparrow with conviction, "but one does whatever one can.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Fall, Thinking, Air

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• And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you And there isnt a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives Arent as bad as they seem but now i see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and its just a bad dream.

  Michael Grant

  Dream, Blood, Wake Up

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• When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Eye, Sky

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• Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Brother, Firsts, Moral

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.543, Bantam Classics

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• Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too. And I—I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone—I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Children, Dark, Broken

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.142, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.

  Franny Billingsley

  Secret, One Thing

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.261, A&C Black

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• Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Friday, Morning, Pain

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• Had you been lying all along? Mum gently stroked my hair. I whispered into her shoulder. “I can’t go back. Not yet. I can’t leave.” And she held my head tight to her chest and wrapped her arms around me. “You don’t have to,” she said, rocking me. “You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, not anymore.” And I cried.

  Lucy Christopher

  Hair, Want, Arms

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• Never seem to have a Death Star lying around when you need one.” -Han Solo

  R. A. Salvatore

  Stars, Needs, Solo

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• She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Shapes, Lines, Patterns

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.

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• Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Moving, Thinking

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.30, Hamilton Books

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• Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

  Harper Lee

  Black And White, Men, Race

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