Samuel Lover Quotes

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

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

Some books are lies frae end to end.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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

Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

People for the most part can smell lies.

terminological inexactitude

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.