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Lying Quotes by John Green
- I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in…
- Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my…
- We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down…
- I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back…
- But mothers lie. It's in the job description.
- She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen…
- The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?
- True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie…
- No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women…
- Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be…
- You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.
- So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.
- ...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you.…
- Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring…
- I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they…
- Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.
- 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…
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