A Beautiful Lie Quotes

#1. It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves - that you could have magic without monsters.

Anne Ursu

#2. Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

Karen Maitland

#3. All my life I've lived a beautiful lie. The governor's son with the bright future set for him. The middle child. The one who no one knew how bad he was suffering until it made the nightly news.

Magan Vernon

#4. Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

Mira Grant

#5. That would be a beautiful lie to believe,

Cassandra Clare

#6. Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?

Miriam Toews

#7. Life asked Death 'why do people love me, but hate you?'. Death responded 'because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth'.

Unknown

#8. Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.

Iceberg Slim

#9. when you run from truth , lie create a artificial beautiful cage around you and you start live like prisoner who just think i am free but its also lie.

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#10. All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

Herman Melville

#11. I know i don't get the happily ever after. My knight and shinning armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole. I've made peace with that. That doesn't mean i'm going to lie down like a doormat and let every cocky prick in the trailer have his way with me. - White Trash Beautiful

Teresa Mummert

#12. I was the one thing
he had to deny--
the beautiful truth
within his
terrible lie.
-who knew such a young heart could shatter?

Amanda Lovelace

#13. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

Ray Bradbury

#14. Marriage is a lie - the most beautiful lie two people can share.

Anthony Marais

#15. A snowdrift is a beautiful thing-if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

Hal Borland

#16. I would be mute, beautiful, changless as the earth for you. I would be your memory, without age, always innocent, always waiting in the King's white house. I would do that for you and no other man inthe relm. But it would be a lie and I will do anything but lie to you - I swear that.

Patricia A. McKillip

#17. Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child.

Jean-Francois Millet

#18. I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four," he said, patting his hands together. "I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie. Constance, my dear?"
"Yes, Uncle Julian?"
"I am going to say that my wife was a beautiful woman.

Shirley Jackson

#19. I wish the rose was as beautiful as the woman who gives it as a gift ... but to say so would be to lie. But I will accept the lesser if it pleases the greater of the two ... and I say, THANK YOU

Tonny K. Brown

#20. It's all going to be okay. She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some lies are beautiful. Stories do not tell you that.

Anne Ursu

#21. Gaunt immortality in black and gold,
Wreathed consoler hideous to behold.
The beautiful lie of a mother's womb,
The pious trick - for it is the tomb!

Thomas Ligotti

#22. It's beautiful. Not a lie. But tornados were beautiful too.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#23. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

John Green

#24. some people no want to listen to the truth and like to believe in a beautiful dressed lie from the wrong person.

Jan Jansen

#25. Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.

Russell Brand

#26. There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".

Gerald Mills

#27. Do not listen to what any society tells you about the body - the body is the metaphor for all experience. A woman's body more than any other. Like language, its beautiful but weaker sister. Look at this poem. This painting. Look at these photographs. The body doesn't lie.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#28. Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

Matthew Arnold

#29. The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true.

Neil Gaiman

#30. In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

Walter Scott

#31. ... I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they're lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.

Grace Paley

#32. Ever since I drank your blood, my head has been crazy ... I won't lie. The connection gives me a lot of power over you. I could read your thoughts and speak to you wherever I am, even several miles away.

Kenya Wright

#33. True love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

John Green

#34. There is more beauty inside you than in anyone I have ever met. These pictures don't lie. I won't ever forget you. Or stop loving you. You can ask me to. You can tell me to move on. But I won't. And I never will. Just don't forget how beautiful we were. How beautiful we can still be.
Please.

A Meredith Walters

#35. We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

Shannon L. Alder

#36. We are contaminated with the idea of "winning" and defeating others. Indoctrinated by parents, schools, and our ubiquitous media, hammered with a lie: The only way to be truly triumphant is if we are dominant before supposed "competitors" rather than beautiful before ourselves.

Daniel Gillies

#37. The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#38. Here lie a man and a woman. The man is more beautiful than the woman. And for this reason there have been times when the woman has feared that she loves the man more than he loves her. He has always denied this.

Zadie Smith

#39. And the biggest joke was that I fell in love with her - the most beautiful lie of all. Her kisses were deceit that tasted like the sweetest venom, her laugh a lure to my demise, and her body the damn devil's playground.

Mia Asher

#40. I went back to Australia to do a show called 'The Beautiful Lie,' which is a retelling of 'Anna Karenina' in a six-part mini-series - a modern, contemporary version.

Sarah Snook

#41. Everyone lies about writing. They lie about how easy it is or how hard it was. They perpetuate a romantic idea that writing is some beautiful experience that takes place in an architectural room filled with leather novels and chai tea.

Amy Poehler

#42. You wouldn't know what the fuck to do in a dangerous situation if your life depended on it. And it would, little one.

Tara Sivec

#43. I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

Tuppence Middleton