Telling lies Quote by Len Deighton Download Open image ““Enrolment is tricky. You are telling lies to highly skilled liars.”” — Len Deighton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Telling lies
“Hell, I even enrolled at a university in an attempt to make an honest living.” — Stevie J. Cole Copy Share Image
“Hell, I even enrolled at a university and studied psychology in an attempt to make an honest living” — Stevie J. Cole Copy Share Image
“When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“I was turning out to be college educated and unemployable in even the most basic way.” — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“We’re professional liars, aren’t we? It’s our job to keep the story interesting.” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
“It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.” — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“All my teachers told me that a degree would mean a high paid job. They lied.” — Jennifer Gilby Roberts Copy Share Image
“I wonder why people you have to meet have to be such liars. They lie as if their lives depended on it.” — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“she still had that fundamental insecurity that one bout of poverty can inflict for a lifetime, and no amount of money remedy.” — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them. — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities. — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
“England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen.” — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
“Why do these people love you, Archer? Is it simply because you show little or no response to their affection?” — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war. — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
“For fear is so unwelcome that it comes only in disguise, and guilt is its favourite one.” — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
“When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.” — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
“Or was the truth - like so many truths - not any one of the envisaged possibilities?” — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try. — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies,… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“INEZ: There...you know the way the catch larks - with a mirror? I'm your lark-mirror,my dear, and you can't escape me...There isn't any pimple,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Logic!" said the Professor half to himself. "Why don't they teach logic at these schools? There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When an orphan is depressed," wrote Wilbur Larch, "he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at least a vigorous enterprise, it keeps… — John Irving Copy Share Image
