Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

A lie cannot live.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

A lie never lives to be old.

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Any lie should be as close to the truth as possible.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

Everything I say is 95% truthful.

Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

Everyone has lied for some reason or the other.

We cannot afford to have lies in music.

If I utter one lie, I'll have to remember it the next time someone asks me about it. It's far simpler to state the truth.

There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.