« All Lying Quotes · Jodi Picoult's Page
Best Lying Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses…
- Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying
- Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.
- There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.
- 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…
- Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time.…
- Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road…
- Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because…
- I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color…
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