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J. K. Rowling Quotes about Lying

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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.

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, Responsibility, Parent

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.25, Hachette UK

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

Inspirational, Lying, Greatness

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

Lying, Truth Is, Easier

Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.

Lying, Slow Down

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Lying, Responsibility, Wheels

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, Dark, Easy

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

Lying, Differences, Deceit

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, Dark, Views

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

Lying, Knowing, Acquisition

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

Mistake, Lying, Ninety Nine

Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?

Stars, Lying, Night

J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.295, Hachette UK

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, Kissing, Thinking

J. K. Rowling, “Sphinx's RIDDLe”

You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!

Lying, Evil, Cockroaches

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, Feet, Missing

Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.

Wise, Witty, Lying

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, Book, Giving

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

Lying, Inspirational Harry Potter, Deceit

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

Lying, Dobby, Deathly Hallows

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.

Lying, Thinking, Waiting

I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.

Tattoo, Lying, Ginny Weasley

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.53, Pottermore

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, Office, Secret

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, Mind, Battle

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