Lying Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.

  Jim Morrison

  Bleeding, Murder, Sheets

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• The let-alone lies not in your good will.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Will

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.322, Classic Books Company

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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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• 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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• Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

  Louise Penny

  Years, Forgiving, Hours

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.657, Macmillan

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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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• I haven’t prepared my speech yet,” I sighed and Tove stood up. “What should I say about him?” “Well, if you plan to say anything nice, you’re going to have to lie,” Tove muttered as he walked over to his closet.

  Amanda Hocking

  Nice, Say Anything, Speech

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.530, Pan Macmillan

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• As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes rise to the surface and sprout like strange plants from other worlds. What is the fertile humus of the subconscious composed of? Why are certain images converted into recurrent themes in nightmares or writing?

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Writing, Other Worlds

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• I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence--that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses, unrealities and lies.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Reality, Differences

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• But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Sadness, Solitude

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.319, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.

  Nora Roberts

  Tourists, Naked, South Dakota

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• You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.

  Alison Goodman

  Mother, Thinking, Who I Am

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• Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Literature, Imaginative, Effects

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• I throw him two bones: a smile and a nod. Both lies.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Two, Bones

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• Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to feel all those things to the maximum. Like, I don’t eat a lot but I really love eating. And I like being precise and particular. There is a certain respect in that. If you can do your day depending on how you feel, and enjoy things as well.

  Bjork

  How You Feel, Emotion, Eating

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• Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don’t make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knights, Habit, Gentle

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• Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see that which they name and call out to one another but the world between is invisible to them

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Animal, Blow

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.331, Pan Macmillan

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• Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Watches, Deceit, Facts

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.58, Macmillan

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• The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.

  Brennan Manning

  Sweet, Mean, Pride

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.18, Multnomah

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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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• Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Simple, Breathing, Lips

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• But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.

  Brad Barkley

  Together, Doe, Needs

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