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Lying Quotes by Stephen King
- A man who lies about beer makes enemies.
- Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.
- Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.
- The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing…
- Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters…
- The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
- Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
- Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
- Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
- First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead
- if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always…
- You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
- Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.
- The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head…
- Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still…
- The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man…
- And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.
- We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
- Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
- I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of…
- You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.
- Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get…
- Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put…
- I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.
- ...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to…
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