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Lying Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in…
- I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.…
- The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with…
- Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
- Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.
- Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and…
- Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.
- A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.
- The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.
- Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.
- Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.
- All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often…
- When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.
- A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read…
- Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window,…
- ...and when you’ve known me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies.
- Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
- You lie. Worse, you lie poorly.
- He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed, when the candles…
More Lying Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius