Lying Quotes

8656 quotes by 4266 authors

History is the lie commonly agreed upon. — Voltaire
Rule 1: The Doctor lies. — Steven Moffat
But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part… — Elizabeth Wein
Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They all do. But… — Diana Gabaldon
Only the magic and the dream are true â€” all the rest's a lie. — Jean Rhys
So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television and phones?" "Men's… — Melina Marchetta
I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes. — Cassandra Clare
When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies… — Charles Baxter
This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him… — Jodi Picoult
Tell me Zach.â€ I donâ€™t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. â€œAnd donâ€™t lie to me. — Ally Carter
All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No. — Susanna Kaysen
...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater gratification than lying… — Caitlin Moran
How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not… — Jeet Thayil
The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays… — David Attenborough
We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's… — Anais Nin
At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales… — Patricia A. McKillip
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the… — Alain de Botton
To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to… — Alain de Botton

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