Telling Lies Quotes (page 2)

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• lies
• victory
• telling

Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why? Adolf Hitler

• friends
• lies
• impressive

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it. Aleister Crowley

• book
• love
• life

The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them. George Orwell

• walking
• lies
• thoughts

Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind. Shusaku Endo

• great
• greatness
• people

Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don’t. Hilly didn’t. Stephen King

• lies
• church
• singing

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them. Aiden Wilson Tozer

• lies
• ways
• maintaining order

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. Derrick Jensen

• lies
• people
• frightening

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing. Orhan Pamuk

• looking at you
• help
• waste

INEZ: There... you know the way the catch larks - with a mirror? I'm your lark-mirror, my dear, and you can't escape me... There isn't any pimple, not a trace of one. So what about it? Suppose the mirror started telling lies? Or suppose I covered my eyes - as he is doing - and refused to look at you, all that loveliness of yours would be wasted on the desert air. No, don't be afraid, I can't help looking at you. I shan't turn my eyes away. AndI'll be nice to you, ever so nice. Only you must... Jean-Paul Sartre

• sad
• faith
• dog

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk. Mark Haddon

• lies
• tells
• being a woman

So much of being a woman is telling lies Candace Bushnell

• lies
• real
• words

Though frankly… Tarnapol, as he is called, is beginning to seem as imaginary as my Zuckermans anyway, or at least as detached from the memoir-ist – his revelations coming to seem like still another “useful fiction,” and not because I am telling lies. I am trying to keep to the facts. Maybe all I’m saying is that words, being words, only approximate the real thing, and so no matter how close I come, I only come close. Philip Roth

• lies
• speaking
• truly

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable. Sophocles

• lies
• people
• surprise

Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies? Alice Munro

• enough
• wellness
• love

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. Edward W. Howe