Quotes about lying
lying two desire
Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires? J. M. Coetzee
lying angel made-up-stories
No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).
lying
Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths
lying thinking waiting
That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,” said Harry. “And quite honestly,” he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime. J. K. Rowling
lying feet missing
Oh, don’t lie, Harry,” she said impatiently. “Ron and Ginny say you’ve been hiding from everyone since you got back from St. Mungo’s.” “They do, do they?” said Harry, glaring at Ron and Ginny. Ron looked down at his feet but Ginny seemed quite unabashed. “Well, you have!” she said. “And you won’t look at any of us!” “It’s you lot who won’t look at me!” said Harry angrily. “Maybe you’re taking it in turns to look and keep missing each other,” suggested Hermione, the corners of her mouth twitching.
lying evil littles
You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!
lying dark easy
Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore
lying kissing thinking
First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and the end of end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
lying knowing acquisition
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
lying differences deceit
Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.
lying dobby deathly-hallows
Here lies Dobby, a free elf.
lying mind battle
The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's mind was in freefall, spinning out of control, unable to grasp the impossiblity, because Fred Weasley could not be dead, the evidence of all his senses must be lying -
lying office secret
Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.
lying slow-down
Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.
lying deceit potters
It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
lying book giving
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
lying responsibility wheels
The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
lying dark views
As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.
lying truth-is easier
The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.
lying responsibility parent
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
lying discovery adrenal-glands
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal. Ivan Pavlov
lying men atheism
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. H. G. Wells
lying believe eugenics
I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.
lying silly light
There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?
lying army men
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.
lying advertising
Advertising is legalized lying.
lying men progress
The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man H. L. Mencken
lying innocent offers
Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
lying drinking simple
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there is a choice, the milder drink is always the better-not merely the safer but the better. The second is that no really enlightened drinker ever takes a drink at a time when he has any work to do. There is, of course, more to it than this; but these are sufficient for the beginner, and even the virtuoso never outgrows them.
lying believe survival
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
lying men facts
No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.
lying men honor
No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.
lying way flattering
The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob