“The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) English author and academic
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.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) English author and academic
Page 269.
Stepping Westward (1965)
“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Death Bringer
“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
“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)
“Some live lies who won’t tell them; some tell lies who won’t live them.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
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.
Halldór Laxness book Kristnihald undir Jökli (bók)
Pastor Jón Prímus
Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)
“Dandelions don't tell no lies…”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones