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Quotes About Lies

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
~ Jodi Picoult
The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
~ Jodi Picoult
Maybe illusion and artifice—lies, even—are a necessary part of romance.
~ Jody Gehrman
lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.
~ Joe Abercrombie
In vain you whisper sweet lies About falling under love's spell, Your stubborn and hungry eyes, - I'm afraid, I know them too well!
~ Anna Akhmatova
I had no idea that you would come up with this mad scheme. How did you enlist your mother in your wickedness? What lies did you tell her?" "None. From the first, my mother has known exactly who you are." His nonchalant reply knotted her stomach with shame and anger. How could he be so careless of her reputation? "Your mistress?" After a fraught pause, Lachlan's voice emerged deep and steady. "The woman I want to marry.
~ Anna Campbell
Tas bija br?niš??gi un piln?gi sadom?ti. Viss bija ne?sts. T? nebija dz?ve. T? nebija Par?ze. Bija augusts. Es nebiju t?rists. Es nebiju vecpuisis. Es meloju pats sev. Sev, vi?ai, savai ?imenei. Vi?a nebija mu??e, un, kad pien?ca pa?iru laiks, telefona zvani un meli, vi?a aizbrauca. Pie lidostas durv?m vi?a man pav?st?ja: ''Es m??in?šu dz?vot bez jums. Es ceru, man izdosies…
~ Anna Gavalda
Such lies were a lot better, less hurtful than the truth would have been.
~ Anna Seghers
The loss of freedom, tyranny, abuse, hunger would all have been easier to bear if not for the compulsion to call them freedom, justice, the good of the people Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Lies, by their very nature partial and ephemeral, are revealed as lies when confronted with language's striving for truth. But here all the means of disclosure had been permanently confiscated by the police. —Aleksander Wat, My Century
~ Anne Applebaum
Words lie. Blood doesn't.
~ Anne Bishop
He that hath nothing to feed on but vanity and lies must needs lie down in the bed of sorrow.
~ Anne Bradstreet
M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over again or else lie so I lie I just lie who are they who are the storytellers who can put an end to stories
~ Anne Carson
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
~ Anne Perry
People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.
~ Anne Perry
It's all going to be okay. She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some lies are beautiful. Stories do not tell you that.
~ Anne Ursu
In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.
~ Anne Ursu
the water was holding [him] close and telling him beautiful lies, and since it was the end, he chose to believe them.
~ Anne Ursu
Mais que penser de la dernière fois, de ses mensonges au sujet du film où il n'aurait pas dû être ? Je suis persuadée maintenant qu'il a eu d'autres femmes en même temps que moi, mais depuis quand
~ Annie Ernaux
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
~ H. Rap Brown
When I got the audition for 'Big Little Lies,' I knew this project was going to be different than anything I'd ever done. That didn't change the way I approached the role.
~ Kathryn Newton
If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.
~ Jim Crace
There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'
~ Al Franken
If my own country is subverting the rule of law and sending its own citizens, its military, into harm's way on the basis of lies and propaganda, I would argue that being a patriot is calling out those lies and saying, 'No, you don't send our military into harm's way with no legal justification.'
~ Katharine Gun
The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.
~ Bushwick Bill