Lionel Shriver Quotes

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

It is a world of lies that permeates the Left

You know what lies are for.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.