Lying Quotes

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The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can.… — Dean Koontz
I told myself it was the snowâ€”she couldnâ€™t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. Itâ€™s… — Libba Bray
There is no greater power on this earth than story.â€ Will paced the length of the room. â€œPeople think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsenseâ€”words… — Libba Bray
He told me that once, in the war, heâ€™d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just… — Libba Bray
She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, whoâ€™d botched things so badly. Theyâ€™d sold their children a pack of lies:… — Libba Bray
They kept the lie going, and the people loved it. — Libba Bray
Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself. — Michelle Sagara
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull… — J.R.R. Tolkien
D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my… — Diana Gabaldon
The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as… — Ellen Hopkins
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe. — Clifford D. Simak
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness… — Milan Kundera
Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Animals do not â€˜giveâ€™ their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to… — John Robbins
The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it. — Daniel Pennac
First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are… — David Mitchell
Inside every believe, thereâ€™s a lie.â€ - Eliza Caelum — Tiffanie DeBartolo
A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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