Lying Quotes - Page 27

• As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.” “And you're still not sorry,” I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. “No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sorry, Want, Gale

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• The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Years, Breathing

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• Hello, hello.” Magnus swept toward them..."Alec, my darling, Clary. And rat-boy." He swept a bow toward Simon, who looked annoyed. "To what do I owe the pleasure?" "We came to see Jace," Clary said. "Is he all right?" "I don’t know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?" "What –," Alec began, and broke off as Magnus laughed. "That’s not funny." "You’re so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can’t find anything. He’s compulsive.

  Cassandra Clare

  Moving, Boys, Annoyed

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• Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

  Marcel Proust

  Rely Upon, Needs, Done

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.600, Wordsworth Editions

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• After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

  Walter de La Mare

  Men, Chinese, Nests

  Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)

  Kathryn Lasky

  Truth Is, Creatures

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• Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a falsely beautiful paradise surrounded by fragile glass walls, my daughter. Your mother created the world she wanted to live in and she brought you up in it, but she never told you it was an illusion. And all the time the demons waited with their weapons of blood and terror to smash the glass and pull you free of the lie.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

  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.830, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!

  Margaret Atwood

  Queens, Taken, White

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is all over with. All that remains is the respect. If I put my arms around you and told you that I missed you, I would be lying. You're alright with me and I wish you well. But you're not me and that makes you one of them and you can only get so close.

  Henry Rollins

  Wish, Would Be, Arms

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• Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Ideas, Interesting

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• Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wife, Inspire, Feelings

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.834, Race Point Publishing

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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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• don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

  Jodi Picoult

  Doe, Looks, Matter

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hands, Ceilings, Empty

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.165, Scholastic Inc.

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• It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.

  Jonathan Ames

  Doors, Brain, Down And

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• How long?" His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest." For ever?" Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie. "Longer.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sweet, Eye, Yellow

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• I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.

  Margaret Haddix

  Sleep, Night, Soldier

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Palace of Mirrors”, Simon and Schuster

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• Lie to yourself until it's true.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable. Darkness and shattering despair that could break bones. Paranoia and horror that could stop the heart cold. All inflicted on one's self by one's self. The soul turns schizophrenic and goes hopelessly insane.

  Henry Rollins

  Heart, Self, Talking

  Henry Rollins (1992). “Art to choke hearts ; & Pissing in the gene pool: collected writing 1985-1987”, 2 13 61

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• Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Path, Portal, Window

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• We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Hate, Dodge, Painful

  Douglas Kennedy (2013). “The Douglas Kennedy Collection #2: Temptation, The Woman in the Fifth, and Leaving the World”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

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• Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out drinking with your friends on a Saturday night, stop accepting starring roles in theater productions, and stop doing everything besides sitting here by my side and passing me Kleenex and aspirin while I lie and creak and cry and drown myself and you in my misery.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Drinking, Night, Roles

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

  Ian McDonald

  Fake, Deception, World

  Ian McDonald (2007). “Brasyl”

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• Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.

  Ben Elton

  Jealous, Unrequited Love, Passion

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