“Tell me some true things about fighting.'
'Tell me you love me.”
Ernest Hemingway book Across the River and into the Trees
'I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.'
Renata and Colonel Richard Cantwell in Ch. 12
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
Holly Black book White Cat
Source: White Cat
“The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!”
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (1940) Diplomatic politician and he was the Iraqi Information Minister under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, acting as…
As quoted in A Gigantic Mistake (2004) by Mickey Z, p. 171
“Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”
Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 128)
“There aren't half enough of them going there as it is.”
Horace Greeley (1811–1872) American politician and publisher
Reply to a missionary who asked Greeley for a subscription to "help keep people from going to hell", as quoted in "Grab-bag Education", The Book of Journeyman (1930) by Albert Jay Nock
Attributed
Chauncey Depew (1834–1928) American politician
As quoted in "If Elected I Promise … " Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969) by John F. Parker
