Lying Quotes - Page 34

• Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

  Arthur Phillips

  Love Is, Stories, Ever After

  Arthur Phillips (2010). “The Song is You”, p.270, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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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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• Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.

  Jim C. Hines

  Snow, Life Is, Ever After

  Jim C. Hines (2010). “Red Hood's Revenge”, p.231, Penguin

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• I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

  Shan Sa

  Regret, Sadness, Hair

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• Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.

  David Sedaris

  Dog, Laughter, Feet

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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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• 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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• He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable day for seeding, lovers loving, mothers nursing their children—and all of this was not worthy of one look from his eye, it all lied, it all stank, it all stank of lies, it all pretended to be meaningful and joyful and beautiful, and it all was just concealed putrefaction. The world tasted bitter. Life was torture

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Mother

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• In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Essence, Depth

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.111, Ageless Reads

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• She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Book, Reading

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But while I'd be their daughter, while I'd eat the roast and come home from dates and wash the dishes, I would also be myself. I would love my mother, but I'd never want to be her again. I would never be what someone else wanted me to be. I would never laugh at a joke I didn't think was funny. I would never tell another lie. I would be the truth-teller, starting today. That would be tough. But I was tougher.

  Judy Blundell

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  Judy Blundell (2011). “What I Saw and How I Lied”, p.250, Scholastic UK

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• I’ll probably just stand in a corner, trying not to be noticed, until the decoration committee accidentally packs me into a box at the end of the night. There I will lie, crammed in between rolls of crepe paper, until the New Year’s dance two months from now. Jeffrey thought about this for a moment and said, Won’t they notice the box is too heavy when they go to put it away?

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  New Year, Night, Years

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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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• 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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• Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

  Celia Rees

  Mind, Way, Truth Is

  Celia Rees (2010). “Witch Child”, p.19, A&C Black

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• Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

  Steven Pressfield

  Passing By, Law, Stranger

  Steven Pressfield (2000). “Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae”, Random House

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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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• ...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

  Ally Carter

  Fitting, Ends, Gallagher Girl

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Gun, Girl Interrupted, Veins

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.17, Vintage

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• We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.

  Daniel Abraham

  Spring, Flower, Years

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• Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.

  Sonya Sones

  Conservative, Humans, Ifs

  Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Prayer, Real

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.747, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Guys, we’re so screwed. The women know we didn’t go hunting. (Kyrian) You think? What idiot came up with that lie? (Zarek) I’m not an idiot. And it’s not like I lied. I just omitted what exactly we were hunting and where we were doing it. (Talon) Like your wives wouldn’t know better? When was the last time Mr. Armani hunted something that didn’t have a price tag on it? Oh, and the loafers and trousers are perfect camouflage. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Hunting, Price Tag

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• If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

  Richard Wright

  Men, Bed, Faces

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider”

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• I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.

  Barbara Mertz

  Heart, Past, Discovery

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