Autobiography Quote by Humphrey Carpenter

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though…

— Richard Hell

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying.

— Matei Calinescu

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

— Oscar Wilde

To overvalue something is a form of lying.

— Baltasar Gracian

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

— Pat Conroy

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

— Paulo Coelho

What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important…

— David Robinson

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

— Anthony Trollope

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did notthe value of security won,…

— Ida Tarbell

Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such…

— James Madison

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens