Lying Quotes - Page 33

• This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me ... and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.

  Suzanne Collins

  Believe, Boys, Moments

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.306, Scholastic Inc.

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• Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn't belong. And it doesn't feel right

  Daniel Keyes

  Believe, Together, Directors

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

  Holly Black

  People, Blame, Truth Is

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

  Cherie Priest

  Wings, California, Gold

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Boneshaker”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Mean, Men, Knives

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.103, Modern Library

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• I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Trying, Gale

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.73, Scholastic Inc.

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• V jerked back to the present. And for some reason didn't lie. "I'm thinking about my tattoos." "When did you get them?" "Almost three centuries ago." She whistled. "God, you live that long?" "Longer. Assuming I don't get cracked dead in a fight and you fool humans don't blow up the planet, I'll be breathing for another seven hundred years.

  J.R. Ward

  Tattoo, Fighting, Blow

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• So truth created the ultimate lie. Was this what the world was like for wizards? This thorny, gray tangle where right and wrong were so mixed there was no telling them apart?

  Hilari Bell

  Wizards, World, Gray

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• Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.

  Tea Obreht

  Running, Children, Grandmother

  Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

  Franz Kafka

  Art, Dark, Light

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.

  Suzanne Collins

  People, Sick, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.118, Scholastic Inc.

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• No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?

  John Green

  Covenant, Sacred, Helping

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.55, Penguin

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• A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Kings, Mistake, Numbers

  R. Scott Bakker (2010). “The Judging Eye: One (The Aspect-Emperor Trilogy)”, p.169, The Overlook Press

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• He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).

  Ann Voskamp

  Real, Believe, Long

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.17, Zondervan

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• Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Inspiring, Sometimes, Telling The Truth

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• … he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

  Arundhati Roy

  Rage, Born, Composure

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• We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

  Neal Shusterman

  War, Believe, Want

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• It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Believe, Long, People

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Hard Love”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Tired, Promise, Would Be

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.615, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.

  Emily Dickinson

  Congratulations, Deceit, Dazzle

  c.1868 Complete Poems, no.1129 (first published 1945).

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• I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

  Martin Luther

  Compare, Snowball, Greater

  Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

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• Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Simple, Cities, Giving

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• It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.

  Nick Vujicic

  Thinking, Not Good Enough, Good Enough

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She licked again, taking her time,even though she didn't need to; her first stroke numbed the bite site. No, this second taste was for her, not him, and there was no lying about that. "I'm starting to feel like a Tootsie Pop, here" he rasped. She couldn't contain a smile. " Yes... how did that old commercial go?" She licked him. "One." She licked him again, and he moaned. "Two." She licked him once more, and his hips came off the bed, "Three.

  Larissa Ione

  Two, Bed, Three

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• Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right. "The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..." Sure, I know, it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Years, Common, Individual

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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