“You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
Åse, Act I, Scene I
Peer Gynt (1867)
“You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
“I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
Variant: ... I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.”
Elin Hilderbrand (1969) American writer
Source: Barefoot
“It's not lying when you do it to officers!”
Terry Pratchett book Monstrous Regiment
Source: Monstrous Regiment
“It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.”
Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord
Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
“These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain”
Janet Fitch (1955) American writer
Source: Paint it Black
“anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
Source: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
“Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.”
Chuck Klosterman book Downtown Owl
Source: Downtown Owl
“Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying”
Holly Black book White Cat
Source: White Cat