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Lying Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important…
- Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction…
- She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through her. She's been…
- In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.
- It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's…
- I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars...
- We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick…
- Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
- I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.
- When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still…
- All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they…
- Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that…
- Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're slow," said Loki,…
- I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you…
- Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the…
- We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick…
- I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
- We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it…
- He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince…
- It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.
- People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and…
- I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set…
- Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every…
- Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard…
- In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be…
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