#lying

Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ↗

— Sara Shepard

#perfect #pretty-little-liars #sara-shepard #truth #journey

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

— Otto von Bismarck

#hunting #lying #people #war #elections

She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying. ↗

— Holly Black

#lying #excellence

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

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#friends #pity #school #schoolmates #memoir

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#denial #facing #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#lying #deception

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#charge #judgement #lying #truthful #judgement

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. ↗

— Mark Twain

#lying #mark-twain #twain #art

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you. ↗

— Courtney Summers

#high-school #high-school