A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It’s weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.
Howard L. SalterI suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.
Cassandra ClareTags: self-deception lie lying
In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?"
Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few seconds. Then counter-attacked:
"I'm a liar by vocation," he shouted. "I lie with joy! Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance."
Then more soberly, he added - his voice lowered - that the principal difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is that in the former there exists only one truth, the truth as imposed by power, while in free countries every man has the right to defend his own version of events.
Truth, he said, is a superstition.
Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.
Chuck KlostermanTags: humor truth lies lying sarcasm chuck-klosterman
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
Diana Wynne JonesTags: humor humour salvation lying
The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he is telling me is the truth or not, and sometimes I can figure out that it's not the truth and sometimes I don't know and never know, and sometimes just because he says it to me over and over again I am convinced it is the truth because I don't believe he would repeat a lie so often. Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry at me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves her or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.
Lydia DavisTags: truth deception lie lying deceiving
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.
J.K. RowlingTags: inspirational self-acceptance humanity shame lying self-hatred hiding being-someone-else being-someone-else-you-are-not hating-yourself trying-to-be-like-someone-else
For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.
Elizabeth InchbaldThe mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of what they were, lying about it, trying to be somebody else. Honesty was Fats' currency, his weapon and defense. It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. Other people, Fats had discovered, were mired in embarrasment and pretense, terrified that their truths might leak out, but Fats was attracted by rawness, by everything that was ugly but honest, by the dirty things about which the likes of his father felt humiliated and disgusted. Fats thought a lot about messiahs and pariahs; about men labeled mad or criminal; noble misfits shunned by the sleepy masses.
J.K. RowlingTags: honesty humanity lie lying humiliation embarrasment
If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows.
Shannon L. AlderTags: lies confidence relationships self-worth liar lying worth flirting dignity fake cheat flirtation blinded spouse players low-self-esteem dishonorable emotional-affair ex-boyfriend gullible stupid-women
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