Lying Quotes
8656 quotes by 4266 authors
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I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not…
— Kami Garcia
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So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
— Charles Bukowski
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I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and…
— Maya Banks
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You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare…
— John Green
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Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.
— Brent Weeks
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Lie to me. she whispered. I love you. he said.
— Stephenie Meyer
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The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures…
— Anne Sexton
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I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating,…
— Kiersten White
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It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity,…
— Claire Messud
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It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
— Tom Clancy
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what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible…
— Blaise Cendrars
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Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard…
— Neil Gaiman
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There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
— Glen Cook
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In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if it…
— David Sedaris
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Acknowledging that sometimes, often at very crucial times, you really have no idea where you are going or even where the path lies. A the…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.
— Daniel Handler
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He's not a liar at all. Not about important things. He'll tell you horrible truths, but he won't lie." She paused before she added quietly:…
— Cassandra Clare
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Some things are better when it’s raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this.†“Lying in bed with me?
— Lisa Kleypas
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I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down.…
— Khaled Hosseini
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...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.
— Pico Iyer
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