Telling Lies About Me Quotes

#1. (Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

Jonathan Haidt

#3. Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

Anna Chancellor

#4. I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#5. Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.

Franz Kafka

#6. An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.

M. Scott Peck

#7. So how long do you think it'll be?" he says. "Before the next hurricane comes along to take you home."
"Can I tell you my biggest fear?" I say.
"Yes. Tell me."
"That it will be a very windless four years.

Lauren DeStefano

#8. Grass grows at last above all graves.

Julia Caroline Dorr

#9. You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

E.W. Howe

#10. True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#11. Hemingway should have stayed in the Midwest. He ruined things for the rest of us, telling all those lies. The lie about courage, the lie about every red-blooded male needing to kill a bull or climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

Francine Prose

#12. I don't care what you meant to do. I really don't.
I only care about what you actually do. That's important. The rest of it is just a bunch of bull shit.
--- Grace.

Christian Kiefer

#13. 'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum.

Cathleen Schine

#14. For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth
about everything. That will teach them

Seth Adam Brown

#15. Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked ... The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.

John Cheever

#16. When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

William Hague

#17. The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#18. You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.

Suze Orman

#19. For about four years, I've been telling people I hate sour cream. One time I sent back nachos because they had sour cream on them. I started saying this because a friend I admire hates sour cream. I told him I hated it too so we could have a funny thing in common.

Megan Boyle

#20. It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

#21. At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.

Pete Postlethwaite

#22. Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#23. I wondered whether Mrs. Shears had told the police that I had killed Wellington and whether, when the police found out that she had lied, she would go to prison. Because telling lies about people is called slander.

Mark Haddon

#24. It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where we treat our writers like movie stars.

Lynn Coady

#25. If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.

Chauncey Depew

#26. What is it they say about telling lies? You have to remember every detail, and sooner or later you get caught.

Adrian R. Magnuson

#27. When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.

Elana Dykewomon

#28. I just kept telling myself I didn't want you, but we said no lies, and I think that includes lying to myself. How about you?

C.D. Reiss