Quotes of: Telling-lies Keyword

I can tell if I'm being lied to or manipulated a little better than most. It's definitely an advantage for me.

Troian Bellisario

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.

Stan Musial

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

E. W. Howe

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

H. Rap Brown

My heart keeps begging me for a reason to keep beating, but I'm running out of lies to tell it

Life

They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth ...

Dexter Is Delicious

It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that … [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of c...

Julian Barnes

Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an...

East of Eden

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the t...

Philip Pullman

Anne: Nicholas don't speak to them. Nicholas: Why? Anne: They're dead. Nicholas: WHAT. Anne: They're ghosts. Come over here. Nicholas: But you said "Ghosts wear sheets and carry chains". Anne: I don't care what I said. Get away from them. Nicholas: Y...

The Others

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Mel Gibson

A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story

Lies: A novel

Let every writer tell his own lies That's freedom of the press.

Deaths For The Ladies

I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

Phil Gramm

Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.

Siri Hustvedt

What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.

Julian Barnes

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Jane Fonda

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Henry Adams

They are all good lads, said Carrot softly. I'm sure if the two of you call on each and every one of them and explain the situation, they will see where their duty lies. Tell them... tell them there is always an easy way, if you know where to look.

The Fifth Elephant

It's been my experience when you lie things work out in such a way that you are obliged to tell many more lies to cover up your first one. It's so much easier to just tell the truth the first time around.

His Black Wings

True happiness lies in giving it to others.

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