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Lying Quotes - Page 142

An honest lie is better than a boring truth.

Marcel Wanders, Yvònne G. J. M. Joris (1999). “Wanders wonders: design for a New Age”

I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.

"I am chaotic and lazy". Interview with Maik Grossekathöfer, "Spiegel", March 15, 2010.

Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe in the chilly waters of verisimilitude, no matter how often it is demonstrated that photographs can and do lie.

Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Lucy R. Lippard, St. Louis Art Museum (1997). “Defining eye: women photographers of the 20th century : selections from the Helen Kornblum collection”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Leo Tolstoy (2014). “Anna Karenina”, p.378, OUP Oxford

Online bullying has to stop.

"'That's what people call my son!' Katie Price defends saying n-word twice on This Morning by using it more" by Hayley Minn, www.mirror.co.uk. April 26, 2017.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.141, University of Missouri Press

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.544, Delacorte Press

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.4130, e-artnow