J. K. Rowling Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Responsibility, Parent

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.25, Hachette UK

• The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Responsibility, Wheels

• The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Truth Is, Easier

• Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Differences, Deceit

• Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Lying, Greatness

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

• Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Dark, Easy

• Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Lying

• It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Inspirational Harry Potter, Deceit

• Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Slow Down

• Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Dobby, Deathly Hallows

• Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Office, Secret

• The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's mind was in freefall, spinning out of control, unable to grasp the impossiblity, because Fred Weasley could not be dead, the evidence of all his senses must be lying -

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Mind, Battle

• The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Lying, Ninety Nine

• I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.

  J. K. Rowling

  Tattoo, Lying, Ginny Weasley

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.53, Pottermore

• That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,” said Harry. “And quite honestly,” he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Thinking, Waiting

• As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Dark, Views

• You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Evil, Cockroaches

• First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and the end of end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Kissing, Thinking

  J. K. Rowling, “Sphinx's RIDDLe”

• Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Knowing, Acquisition

• Oh, don’t lie, Harry,” she said impatiently. “Ron and Ginny say you’ve been hiding from everyone since you got back from St. Mungo’s.” “They do, do they?” said Harry, glaring at Ron and Ginny. Ron looked down at his feet but Ginny seemed quite unabashed. “Well, you have!” she said. “And you won’t look at any of us!” “It’s you lot who won’t look at me!” said Harry angrily. “Maybe you’re taking it in turns to look and keep missing each other,” suggested Hermione, the corners of her mouth twitching.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Feet, Missing

• Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?

  J. K. Rowling

  Stars, Lying, Night

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.295, Hachette UK

• I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Book, Giving

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