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Quotes About Lie

His face twitched, as if he were in pain. He said softly, 'Don't say that. Don't you understand? The whole point is, it's all a lie. You're not a toy at all.
~ Regina Doman
A silly lie. A lie so small and to so little purpose that it suggested to Miles a way of life, a strategy for confronting the world, and this was further reason—if any was needed—to doubt the truth of everything the man had said inside.
~ Richard Russo
Hope is a lie that becomes true
~ Rick Remender
Will we ever know what became of her? he asked wistfully. Only if we can trust dreams. I fear they lie as often they tell the truth.
~ Kate Elliott
It was a good lie, whoever had come up with it. Blaming the Germans wasn't an option—too many incriminating duds still littered our funkholes—but since the French 75-millimeter gun was also the main field weapon of the American artillery, guilt could be plausibly shifted in that direction.
~ Kathleen Rooney
That] was the cruelty of fate, whether you were dying at sea or simply trying to get through high school. Sometimes fate kissed you. Sometimes it snubbed you. Sometimes it passed you a love note, and that note was a lie.
~ Kathy Hepinstall
That's trouble. The pixies will sour your milk." "I thought it was hobgoblins who soured milk." "A dirty lie. Spread by the pixies, no doubt.
~ Kelley Armstrong
He called after me, "How old am I, Maya?" I turned. "How the hell should I know? Whatever you've told the school, I'm sure it's a lie anyway." "I'm sixteen, just like you. Or like you will be tomorrow, from what I heard. My birthday was last month." "Congratulations." I started walking again. "I'll send you a card next year, if you hang around that long, which I doubt.
~ Kelley Armstrong
He swallowed. Rubbed his neck again. Looked around. Then he motioned at the rock. "Can we lie down again? I think I'll do this better…" "If you're talking to the sky?" A half laugh, half snort. "Yeah. Lame, I know.
~ Kelley Armstrong
You are the most perverse man in the history of my memory. So lie there and die very slowly, creep.
~ Ken Akamatsu
Como se suele decir: una mentira da media vuelta al mundo mientras la verdad aún se está calzando
~ Ken Follett
The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.
~ Stanislaw Lem
"The retort courteous"… "the quip modest."… "the reply churlish."… "the reproof valiant… "the countercheck quarrelsome."… "the lie circumstantial," and "the lie direct."
~ William Shakespeare
Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet:
~ William Wordsworth
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
~ Wole Soyinka
Paradise - I see flowers from the cottage where I lie.
~ Yaitsu's death poem
the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it's somehow free of care, worry or fear.
~ David Nicholls
The Duchess looked at Chloe with a look that said, You had the chance to tell him, but you chose to carry on the lie. How do I know that the Duchess's look said this? Because there is an excellent book in my local library entitled One Thousand Doggy Expressions Explained by Professor L. Stone. I digress.
~ David Walliams
I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I am a lie that always speaks the truth.
~ Jean Cocteau
It was right for his speech to be a failure, since what he had been defending was a lie.
~ Jean Hegland
Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out," she said, still speaking in that low voice. "I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.
~ Jean Rhys
Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
~ Jean Rhys
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
~ Jeanette Winterson