Lying Quotes

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I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I… — Robert Cormier
In El-harÃm, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies. Do not wrestle… — Christopher Paolini
I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling… — Patrick Ness
Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me. — Catherynne M. Valente
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you.… — Howard Zinn
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that… — Howard Zinn
It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face. — David Levithan
I wonder if it will beâ€”can beâ€”any more beautiful than this,â€™ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. — Arthur Conan Doyle
How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really. — Philip Larkin
It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin… — Conrad Aiken
Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth… — Anne Rice
Only you," he said, so softly I could barely hear him. "To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands.… — Diana Gabaldon
Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or… — Diana Gabaldon
Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. — Charles de Lint
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which… — Marcel Proust
I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. 'I shall charm him with such force… — Cassandra Clare
Sure, Iâ€™m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the… — Sylvia Plath

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