467 quotes found
“This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.”
“Tomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himselfSo our condition makes escape impossible? -- we breatheand it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle”
“Lying is the new truth.”
“A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth. This means that everything you say is a white lie because when someone says, for example, "What...”
“Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.”
“In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?"Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few seconds. Then counter-attacked:"I'm a liar by vocation," he shouted. "I l...”
“Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.”
“There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is ...”
“No secret can remain hidden for ever. Silently and patiently, it waits in the dark. It lets you build your life, carefully stacking the bricks one by one, and then it appears. It deals its blow and...”
“Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn't it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah's father."- Nell”
“But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear...You are in ...”
“When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you.”
“To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.”
“The real reason we have faces," Margot Lassiter observes, "is to hold back what we're thinking from the world.”
“Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.”
“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
