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Lying Quotes (page 73)

The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care. Leo Tolstoy
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right..."
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up. Robert A. Heinlein
All June, I bound the rose in sheaves. Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves, And strew them where Pauline may pass. She will not turn aside? Alas! Let them lie. Suppose they die? The chance was they might take her eye. How many a month I strove to suit These stubborn fingers to the lute! To-day I venture all I know. She will not hear my music? So! Break the string -- fold music's wing. Suppose Pauline had bade me sing! My whole life long I learned to love. This hour my utmost art I prove... Robert Browning
Why, such is love's transgression. Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest. With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown. Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. Farewell, my coz. William Shakespeare
The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine. Steven Moffat
It was all there in that little disc-London, Athens, Jerusalem, Shakespeare. There everyone had lived and everything had happened; and there, presumably, his pack was still lying in the porch of an empty house near Sterk. C. S. Lewis
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
Philip Pullman quote: "many good liars have no imagination at all its which gives..."
many good liars have no imagination at all its which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction Philip Pullman
John Steinbeck quote: "The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating..."
The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore. John Steinbeck
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Hope is a lying bitch."
Hope is a lying bitch. Laurell K. Hamilton
The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies. Chinua Achebe
Jodi Picoult quote: "Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase..."
Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie. Jodi Picoult
Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him. H. L. Mencken
I tramped through the country. To get the feeling. That I was not a separate thing from the earth. I used to lose myself. By lying with eyes half-open in the woods. Sometimes I talked with animal? Edgar Lee Masters
Maya Angelou quote: "She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle..."
She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy. Maya Angelou

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