#lies

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. ↗

— Ovid

#counts #everywhere #fortune #friendships #honors

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware. ↗

— David Sedaris

#progress

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. ↗

— Holly Black

#lies #truth #choice

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#diplomats #how #in print #journalists #led

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#truth #wind

The best lies about me are the ones I told. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#lying #self-deception #tricksters #wind

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

— Otto von Bismarck

#elections

You cannot believe everything you hear ↗

— Jude Morgan

#gossip #lies #truth #gossip

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

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you! ↗

— Susan Forward

#deceit #infidelity #liar #lies #pathological-liars