Lying Quotes - Page 21

• I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's just ephemeral, that you can just lie on the floor and bust a gut laughing at, then what's the point?

  Arundhati Roy

  People, Laughing, Worry

  "Interview with Arundhati Roy: ‘We Need a Feral Howl’". Interview with Christina Patterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2009.

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• Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

  Josh Billings

  Moving, Blow, Fog

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• We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad person. I don't care. I don't care what you are.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Care, Persons, Ifs

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.310, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.

  Robert E. Howard

  Dog, Kings, Men

  Robert E. Howard (2015). “The Start Conan the Barbarian Super Pack”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• ... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Dream, Fall, Men

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• As we trudge back through the woods, we reach a boulder, and both Gale and I turn our heads in the same direction, like a pair of dogs catching a scent on the wind. Cressida notices and asks what lies that way. We admit, without acknowledging each other, it's our old hunting rendez-vous place. She wants to see it, even after we tell her it's nothing really. Nothing but a place where I was happy, I think.

  Suzanne Collins

  Dog, Thinking, Hunting

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.

  Peter Straub

  Character, Self, Mad

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• And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Eye, Sitting Still

  "The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Greatness, Envy

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

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• A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Doe, Avalon, Priestesses

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.660, Ballantine Books

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• I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

  Milan Kundera

  Want, Madmen, Ifs

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• She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Men, Hands

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2010, Penguin

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• Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in "In the Dark Streets Shineth.

  David McCullough

  Christmas, Laughter, Children

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Dec 25, 2012

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• Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

  Kami Garcia

  School, Climbing, Opening Up

  "Beautiful Darkness". Book by Kami Garcia, October 12, 2010.

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• I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

  Elizabeth I

  Hate, Grieving, Self

  c.1582 'On Monsieur's Departure'.

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• "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil.""Good will triumph over evil," said Richard. "Liar."

  Joan Bauer

  Liars, Evil, Triumph

  "Squashed". Book by Joan Bauer, 1992.

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• The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Responsibility, Roots, Inability

  Aung San Suu Kyi, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”

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• "A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself," Entreri explained curtly, "if he can impart the belief that some god or other speaks through him. It is the greatest deception in all the world and one embraced by kings and lords, while the minor lying thieves on the streets or Calimport and other cities lose their tongues for so attempting to coax the purses of others."

  R. A. Salvatore

  Kings, Men, Cities

  "Servant of the Shard (The Sellswords, Book 1)". Book by R.A. Salvatore, 2000.

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• She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Heart, Sleep

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• when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Boys, Confusion

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Continual Condition: Poems”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Growing Up, Believe, Imperfection

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• ...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Gowns, Tables

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.359, Penguin Group

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• You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Long, Giving

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Wells

  Jonah Lehrer (2010). “How We Decide”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

  Susanna Clarke

  Magic, Magician, Knows

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing

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