Shirley Hazzard Quotes

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

I always felt like, when you're lying, you're kind of pretending to be something you're not.

I don't lie," I lied.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

You say you’re sick, huh? Well, it looks like you’ve come down with a case of bullshit.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

I am not honest.