467 quotes found
“But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue,Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do.”
“My Mistake - i trusted My fault - i believed My Bad - i open my heart My Muff - i was honest My Lapse - i was caring Good People of today's world do not have all that things.So if someone have .sur...”
“The world is a sewer of lies. We’re all up to our necks in the sweet shit of it.”
“The liar has a bad memory.”
“Words can lie. See beyond them.”
“When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking ...”
“If you say that you have never lied at all,then you give too much trust on anybody.”
“We’re gonna lie when the truth is hard? That’s how this relationship is going to work? All righty, then.”
“I lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you li...”
“...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.”
“Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims’ hearts and minds. “You’re not worthy” is one of them.”
“He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew...”
“The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.”
“There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?”
“The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”
“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
“Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to live in a society where total honesty prevails. Can you imagine ...”
“It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”“Mm. Those are some of the best lies.”
“You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.”
“Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the futu...”
