Best Good Lies Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.”

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Author:Gary Numan

“Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.”

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Author:Anne Tyler

“A lot of Congressmen yesterday were upset when Kenneth Lay took the Fifth. Lay said it wasn't his fault. He had planned on testifying, but when Jeffrey Skilling testified, he took all the really good lies.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.”

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Author:William James

“And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.”

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Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.”

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Author:H. G. Wells

“People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”

“When we move forward into our future, knowing and using the treasures within, then only good lies before us. We can know and affirm that everything that happens to us is for our highest good and greatest joy, truly believing that we can't go wrong.”

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Book:Life!: Reflections on Your Journey

Source: Life!: Reflections on Your Journey

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.”

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Book:Coronado LP

Source: Coronado LP

“If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.”

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Author:Tamora Pierce

“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor liar.”

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Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”

Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)

“Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.”

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Author:Tim Allen

“A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.”

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Book:Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Source: Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

“Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.”

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Book:Parade's End

Source: Parade's End

“I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been good to be all week, and the three places I missed, I didn't get good lies.”

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Author:Darren Clarke

“Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.”

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Author:William McIlvanney

“The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.”

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Author:A. Whitney Brown

“I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.”

Believe Sometimes Lying Cinema Good Lies

Author:Werner Herzog

“There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction. To that and to the art of telling good lies. And what is fiction but the telling of lies?”

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Book:Get That Novel Written!

Source: Get That Novel Written!

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