#lies

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#elections

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#lies #serious #trust #truth #honesty

Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand) ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#feelings #lies #dreams

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. ↗

— St. Vincent de Paul

#lies #pride #truth #humility

You cannot believe everything you hear ↗

— Jude Morgan

#gossip #lies #truth #gossip

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#descriptive #flying #prose #writing #description

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you! ↗

— Susan Forward

#deceit #infidelity #liar #lies #pathological-liars

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#deadliest #heal #hurt #internally #outside

Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still. ↗

— Paul Murray

#schools #bullying

We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian. ↗

— Tracy Letts

#family