The Good Lie Quotes
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A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail.
— Shaun Tan
Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
— Denis Johnson
We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.
— David Carr
Soul Born is not about good and evil, it's about the shadows that lie in-between.
— Kevin James Breaux
I'm a very truthful person, but if the greater good is best served by a lie then I'll tell it.
— Karina Bliss
I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.
— Paul Theroux
In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
— George Washington
The white man knows many things," the other whispered back, "but he doesn't know how to tell a good lie.
— Okey Ndibe
Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.
— Angela Carter
The worst kind of lie - the kind shrouded in good intentions. The kind cowards use to justify their weakness.
— Renee Ahdieh
The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge!
— Winfield Scott
The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.
— Bryant McGill
If you tell one lie, you have to tell more to keep the first lie alive. A story is a good lie with an exit strategy.
— Kelvin Kwa
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
— Henry Ward Beecher
An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
— Norman Davies
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.
— Tamora Pierce
For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.
— Stephen Graham Jones
A lie told well is just as good as the truth.
— Jonah Lehrer
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[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
— Laurence Olivier
In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it — Pedro Calderon De La Barca
What good does it doto lie all day in the sun
loving what's easy?
It never grew easy,
but at least I grew peaceful: — Mary Oliver
Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.
— Lacey Alexander
If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
— Philip Massinger
It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.
— Byron Katie
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
— Richard Steele
Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.
— Jodi Picoult
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.
— Jonathan Maberry
I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.
— Werner Herzog
Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
— Alphonso Jackson
The indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
— Norman Mailer
Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing.
— Leigh Allison Wilson
There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.
— Rebecca Solnit
But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.
— Lynn Samuels
The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction.
— Renee Conoulty
When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.
— Melanie Laurent
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
— William Cowper
Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil. Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie. — Patti Roberts
Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.
— Ford Madox Ford
