Quotes of: Telling-lies Keyword

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

Dreamsongs Section 5: Hybrids and Horrors

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

Falling Sideways

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

All These Things I've Done

The best lies to tell," said Jane, "are the ones people to believe.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

This is an Aston Martin, Gin.You don't run over dead bodies in an Aston Matin." "Tell that to James Bond

Web of Lies

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Pablo Picasso

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

Todd Rundgren

Telling lies and being deceitful takes so much more energy than being honest and sincere.

Steven Aitchison

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them

Seth Adam Brown

You can never tell how much drive that lies in you until you discover your true passion in life.

Edmond Mbiaka,

Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.

Faye Weldon

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.

Jonathan Safran Foer

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

Maurice Sendak

Lt. Escobar: How'd you get past the guard? Jake Gittes: Well, to tell you the truth, I lied a little.

Chinatown

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Graham Greene

Sure, I've done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I'd have to tell lies, like, 'Oh, we love each other; everything was perfect!'

Sandra Bullock

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

Waris Dirie

Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

Aldo Leopold

Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist’s business is lying. The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you wh...

The Left Hand of Darkness

Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also––either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth...

East of Eden

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up wit...

The Graveyard Book