All Quotes By Tag: Lying
“As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking one of the Ten Commandments when I lied and said I’d keep the code a secret. As I’ve known for a long, long time now, hell is going to be totally fucking worth it.”
“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”
“I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.”
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“The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.”
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“There is no one dangerous than a lying woman, because everyone believes what women say.”
“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”
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“We know so little, and have difficulty learning: so we have to lie for that reason only.”
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“Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it’s lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.”
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“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.”
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“I believe in my mask– The man I made up is meI believe in my dance– And my destiny”
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“We doubt in others, what is in fact in ourselves. The skeletons in your own closet are the things that scare you the most about others; people who come from a background of lying are suspicious of lying in others and so on and so forth. The most trusting of people, are not people who have never been betrayed or who have never felt pain; but the most trusting of people are those who in themselves do not find those things worthy of that blame. We see the world through the eyes of the condition of our own souls.”
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“She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could give a different complexion to a matter, but on subsequent thought she had revised her position.Although she still believed that one should be frank in answers to questions, this duty arose only where there was an obligation, based on a reasonable expectation, to make a full disclosure. There was no duty to reveal everything in response to a casual question by one who had no right to the information.”
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“There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.”
“Alanna didn’t approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.”
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