Books Quote by Casanova

“lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the…

— Giacomo Casanova

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which…

— Giacomo Casanova

“Lies are served like a fine delicacy. But beware, the truth of it all will sour, lodge in your throat, and choke your very…

— Jason E. Hodges

“I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie. If he needs me to believe…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought--you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from…

— Jennifer Dubois

“Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?”

— Tom Robbins

“The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must…

— Ruth Tessler Goldstein

“The truth," he says, "is a painful reminder of why I prefer to live among the lies.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. It is told so often that it stumbles in the…

— Roshani Chokshi

“His very regard for truth melts at last into a perversion of truth.”

— George Dangerfield

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that…

— Clare Boothe Luce

“Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.”

— Lucian Barnes