#lying

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#lying #truth #lie

Anything is better than lies and deceit! ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#honesty #lies #lying #lie

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. ↗

— Cheryl Hughes

#honesty #integrity #lying #trust #cheating

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#lying #reason #silence #truth #winning

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

— Otto von Bismarck

#hunting #lying #people #war #elections

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

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

I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real) ↗

— Tara Michener

#bullying #children-s-books #childrens-literature #self-esteem #literature-quotes