Lying Quotes - Page 18

• Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane) It’s amazing the lies we tell other people, isn’t it? (Sunshine's grandmother)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Sunshine, Grandmother

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• Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil.

  David Gemmell

  Strong, Children, Men

  David Gemmell (2003). “White Wolf: A Novel of Druss the Legend”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.

  Charles de Lint

  One Day, Rabbits, Pregnant

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• My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Sleep, Night

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Gitanjali”, p.22, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms..." Tessa stared. "Alas," he went on, "no one has ever actually referred to me as 'the master,' or 'the magister,' either. More's the pity.

  Cassandra Clare

  Art, Flower, Dancing

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• Me, I say those are all great things to live for, if they're what happens to float your boat, but at the end of the day, there's got to be somebody you're doing it for. Just one person you're thinking of everytime you make a decision, everytime you tell the truth, or tell a lie, or anything. I've got mine. Do you?

  Mira Grant

  Life, Thinking, Decision

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• Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said with a smile so disarming Simon knew he was lying. "My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

  Cassandra Clare

  Snakes, People, Police

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.930, Simon and Schuster

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• During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, Names, Icons

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• Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Men, Agony, Silence

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• A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Littles, Salt, Seasons

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.495, Macmillan

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• Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

  P. C. Cast

  Running, Long, Honest

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.477, Macmillan

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• Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Believe, New Moon

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

  Alice Hoffman

  Distance, Problem

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.194, Penguin Group

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• Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique

  Catherine Fisher

  Song, Wall, Rain

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• Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Thinking, Lap

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Williams (2013). “Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel. William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Reclam Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel”, p.94, Reclam Verlag

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• You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

  Stephen King

  Said Life, Way, Discarded

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will.

  William Wordsworth

  Book, Age, Gold

  William Wordsworth (1841). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.135

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• Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Life, Country, Mother

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• Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.

  Suzanne Collins

  Agreement, Missing, Dear

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• But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Men, Might

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.160, Soho Press

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• You don't fear me," he said now. She wasn't stupid enough to lie. "I'm petrified. But I figure you didn't make me come all this way just so you could push me off the roof.

  Nalini Singh

  Stupid, Way, Enough

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.24, Penguin

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• True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

  John Green

  Love, Romantic, Beautiful

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• I won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we’d come to New York.

  James Patterson

  New York, Looks, Faces

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.202, Hachette UK

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• I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.

  Douglas Coupland

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.

  Stephen Crane

  War, Fighting, Men

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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