Deceit Quotes - Page 13

• But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

  Pablo Neruda

  Lying, Heart, One Day

  Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh (2004). “Residence on Earth”, p.259, New Directions Publishing

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• The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

  Richard Bach

  Lying, Book, Writing

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• This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

  Willa Cather

  Summer, Lying, Reality

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.463, eBookIt.com

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• If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

  Agatha Christie

  Careers, Missing, Would Be

  Agatha Christie (1967). “Murder in our midst”

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• When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Lying, Circles, Gossip

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• So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

  William Faulkner

  Peace, War, Long

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Book, Years

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

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• His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

  Dave Eggers

  Lying, Exquisite

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.196, Vintage

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• When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Lying, Acceptance, Danger

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1216, Delphi Classics

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• Anything is better than lies and deceit!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Honesty, Lying, Changing Your Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “Anna Karenina”, p.378, OUP Oxford

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• I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lying, Love You, World

  Charlotte Bronte, Sherri Browning Erwin (2010). “Jane Slayre: The Literary Classic with a Bloodsucking Twist”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

  Virginia Woolf

  Lying, Vanity, Tissues

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.148, Broadview Press

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• Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Truth, Lying, Knowing

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• The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

  George Orwell

  Peace, Political Language, Atrocities Committed

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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  The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Cities, Police

  1946 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Lying, Believe, Answers

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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  Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Honor, Theatre

  Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death”, p.104

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• The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fake People, Lying, Humor

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.29, Random House

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• Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Lying, Deceiving

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• 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

  Lying, Order, Everyday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

  Kanye West

  Song, Jesus, Sex

  Song: Jesus Walks

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• If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

  Howard Zinn

  Tyrants, Ideas, Soldier

  Howard Zinn, Dean Birkenkamp, Wanda Rhudy (2016). “Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn”, p.17, Routledge

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• For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Children, Sadness, Way

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• For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Mean, Eye

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Lying, Giving

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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