William Faulkner Quotes about Lying

All William Faulkner Quotes Alcohol Art Bones Children Conflict Country Courage Desire Drinking Earth Evil Excellence Fun Funny Giving Grief Hate Heart History Home Honesty Honor House Hurt Imagination Inspiration Inspirational Leaving Life Literature Loneliness Love Lying quotes Memories Motivational Opportunity Pain Past Patience Perfection Pride Reading Reality Regret Responsibility Running Sacrifice Salvation Shame Sin Sleep Sorrow Soul Suffering Teaching Time Today Victory Wall War Water Whiskey Wisdom Writing

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

William Faulkner

Truth, Honesty, Lying

So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

William Faulkner

Honesty, Lying, Men

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

William Faulkner

Liars, Lying, Men

William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

William Faulkner

Liars, Lying, Men

William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

William Faulkner

Lying, Knowing, Not Knowing

William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.168, Modern Library

I will never lie again.

William Faulkner

Lying, Never Lie

William Faulkner (1999). “Novels, 1957-1962”

…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.

William Faulkner

Lying, Thinking, Light

William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He said it was men invented virginity not women. Father said it's like death: only a state in which the others are left and I said, But to believe it doesn't matter and he said, That's what's so sad about anything: not only virginity and I said, Why couldn't it have been me and not her who is unvirgin and he said, That's why that's sad too; nothing is even worth the changing of it.

William Faulkner

Father, Lying, Believe

William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company