Lying Quotes

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With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies. — Douglas Coupland
Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all thatâ€™s written well Is written down some useful truth to… — Geoffrey Chaucer
But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself. — Ally Carter
When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will… — C.S. Lewis
...hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't.… — Patrick Rothfuss
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which… — Leo Tolstoy
...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile." "...Where's all the loot?" "That, as my cousin Nord would say,… — Eoin Colfer
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth. — Watchman Nee
I learned that myth doesnâ€™t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they… — John Green
Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a… — Tony Kushner
All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images… — George Harrison
Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read. — David Sedaris
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child MÃ¡rgarÃ©t, are you grÃeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? LeÃ¡ves, lÃke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost. — Anita Shreve
...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin… — Jacques Lacan
Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own… — Daniel H. Wilson
Because our lies matched. It was a sign. — Jay Asher
There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him,… — Thomas Paine
...lying spread-eagled in the hall with only my ankle inside the room that kept me prisoner here. They really should have thought of that and… — Kiersten White
Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someoneâ€™s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second… — Rick Warren

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