114 quotes found
“Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden hat, wahrer ist als man selber.”
“The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.''Do I look like a liar?''You look like...”
“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard”
“What harm does lying cause? One loses people’s trust. And once one loses trust, he becomes worthless.”
“I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you do it.”
“Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.”
“The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.”
“Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.”
“And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.”
“When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.”
“The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the wei...”
“Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.”
“[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?”
“The more we look at anything, the more we see ourselves in the thing. This is called projection. There’s an ethics to projection, an unhinged sense of honesty. Honesty is complicated. The truth is ...”
“The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.”
“The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent.”
“Meg invited me to come again, but I always had reasons why I couldn't: my schedule was busy, bus fare wasn't cheap. Both of which were true, even if they weren't the truth.”
“I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.”
“Why do older people seem more honest, dependable? But it's true. People think lies are like the food pyramid or Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, broad at the base. What does a ninety-year-old have to f...”
“I would make up silver lies studded with shards of perfect detail like mosaic splinters, sharp and everlasting, the kind of tiny faultless detail that would make them all sure that what I said was ...”
