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Lying Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised…
- About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
- Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old…
- I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever…
- I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I…
- A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if…
- The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the…
- But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps…
- You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.
- I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow…
- Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick…
- Soon it will be daybreak. Soon the day will break. I can't stop it from breaking in the same way it always does, and then…
- Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.
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