Laura Lippman Quotes

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

I was never able to master the virtue of humility but I was able to master the appearance of humility.

We never set out to be superstars.

Columbo was never comfortable if somebody considered him unique or smart.

I can fool people that I was educated.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.

There's a difference between lying and not being straight.

Everything you see is not always real.

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

People ask for autographs, and I wonder why before realising, 'Oh, that's right, I'm doing well in boxing.'

There are so many other way more popular athletes than me.

I am the last person to start celebrating.

I won't say I have won many matches, but I used to take care to just do my role.

I love watching England and what they are doing. But I can promise you I've not thought about anything that high.

I don't want to say 'gullible,' but when I saw someone, I always thought that person is the way they present themselves.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.