467 quotes found
“People who say "no" right away are usually lying. A truthful person is perfectly capable of saying "no" but generally they stop and think about it first. And they add "sorry" or something like that...”
“So, yes, I lied, And, believe me, I am so sorry. But I was so in love with you and I didn't know what to do about it and I didn't want to give you any reason not fall in love with me back”
“Never until the wounded came back from Bunker Hill had I realized the lengths of which a determined minority will go in order to achieve its ends. For the first time I understood one of the fundame...”
“Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick.”
“If there were lies to photography, I figured, there was truth too, truths wed never see if not through the dispassionate glass eye of a camera.”
“The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.”
“Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.”
“She isnt acting hurt, she is acting angry, Jared said, feeling frustrated himself.I know, Jared, I know. Right now, she has a distorted view of herself and the world. The only way to effectively co...”
“The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap.”
“I am good at keeping secrets. I am wrapped in them now, the way I am wrapped in lies, like my sweater, clinging tightly to my skin, even on the hottest of days.”
“Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course.”
“A lie set down on paper in wet ink becomes the truth when dry.”
“The world is held together by lies. When I paint, I'm searching for the truth between them, but I'm no better at this than anyone else. Worse, probably.”
“The important thing is not to lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches a state in which he no longer recognizes truth either in himself or in others, and so he ce...”
“Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths”
“As old lies are laid to rest, new ones sprout from their ashes, as deadly as their ancestors”
“As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.”
“The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they dont really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.”
“I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.”
“Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories”
