#lies

If you were smart," Genghis said, "you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends." "We never thought of that," Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a guilty flutter in one's stomach, and Klaus felt such a flutter now. "You certainly are an intelligent man." "Not only am I intelligent," Genghis agreed, "but I'm also very smart. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#clever #count-olaf #funny-humor #intelligent #lemony-snicket

The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#lies #life #love #measure #truth

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#bullying #life

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#photography #men

You can have a normal life. It's not too late for you." I nearly laughed. "You've clearly never met my parents. Normal was never an option. ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

#my-love-lies-bleeding #life

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television. ↗

— Radiohead

#life #radiohead #television #truth #life

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt. ↗

— Toba Beta

#doubt #facts #lies #life #receptive

You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies.... !!! ↗

— Abhijeet Sawant

#lies #trust #life

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#lies #life #matt #mattie #stories

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves. ↗

— Brad Meltzer

#life