“The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”
Page 269.
Stepping Westward (1965)
As quoted in A Gigantic Mistake (2004) by Mickey Z, p. 171
“The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”
Page 269.
Stepping Westward (1965)
“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
Source: Death Bringer
“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
“Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 128)
“Some live lies who won’t tell them; some tell lies who won’t live them.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 119
“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
1460a.19
Poetics
Variant: It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
“Dandelions don't tell no lies…”