Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
- Maya Angelou
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
- Thomas Jefferson
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Aristotle
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
- Malcolm Bradbury
No mirrors in the real world had the ability to reach inside you the way these did. You could tell yourself that the mirrors were simply telling lies, but you'd be wrong. They took tiny truths, swelling them out of proportionand the fact that there was a kernel of truth in what they reflected made the effect devastating.
- Neal Shusterman
So much of being a woman is telling lies
- Candace Bushnell
Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don't. Hilly didn't.
- Stephen King
Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.
- Wendelin Van Draanen
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
- Jane Fonda
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
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
Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.
- Tom Holt
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
- Edward W Howe
Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.
- Denis Johnson
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
- Stanislaw Lec
I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
- Paul Oneill
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.
- Mario Puzo
Though frankly... Tarnapol, as he is called, is beginning to seem as imaginary as my Zuckermans anyway, or at least as detached from the memoir-ist his revelations coming to seem like still another "useful fiction," and not because I am telling lies. I am trying to keep to the facts. Maybe all I'm saying is that words, being words, only approximate the real thing, and so no matter how close I come, I only come close.
- Philip Roth
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
- Helen Rowland
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E Stevenson
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E Stevenson
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E Stevenson
Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway!
...
You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.
- Robert Walser
But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.
- Elizabeth Wein
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
- Maya Angelou
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
- Thomas Jefferson
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Aristotle
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
- Malcolm Bradbury
No mirrors in the real world had the ability to reach inside you the way these did. You could tell yourself that the mirrors were simply telling lies, but you'd be wrong. They took tiny truths, swelling them out of proportionand the fact that there was a kernel of truth in what they reflected made the effect devastating.
- Neal Shusterman
So much of being a woman is telling lies
- Candace Bushnell
Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don't. Hilly didn't.
- Stephen King
Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.
- Wendelin Van Draanen
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
- Jane Fonda
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
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
Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.
- Tom Holt
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
- Edward W Howe
Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.
- Denis Johnson
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
- Stanislaw Lec
I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
- Paul Oneill
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.
- Mario Puzo
Though frankly... Tarnapol, as he is called, is beginning to seem as imaginary as my Zuckermans anyway, or at least as detached from the memoir-ist his revelations coming to seem like still another "useful fiction," and not because I am telling lies. I am trying to keep to the facts. Maybe all I'm saying is that words, being words, only approximate the real thing, and so no matter how close I come, I only come close.
- Philip Roth
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
- Helen Rowland
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E Stevenson
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E Stevenson
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E Stevenson
Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway!
...
You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.
- Robert Walser
But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.
- Elizabeth Wein