Lying Quotes
8656 quotes by 4266 authors
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People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History
— Libba Bray
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There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is…
— Harlan Coben
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Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was…
— Sylvia Day
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But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the memory at full…
— Paul Monette
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if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone
— Paulo Coelho
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And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let…
— Ellen Hopkins
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My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of…
— Frances Hardinge
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Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell…
— Harvey Milk
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People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.
— Orhan Pamuk
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The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and…
— Martin Luther
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And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth…
— Mark Helprin
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Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
— George R. R. Martin
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There are aspectsof this life-- of this world-- from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost…
— Ally Carter
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Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.
— Jack Gantos
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what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually…
— Italo Calvino
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Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.
— Ally Carter
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Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Don't take this the wrong way," Blue replied. Her cheeks felt a little warm, but she was well into this conversation and she couldn't back…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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