Joanne Harris Quotes

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

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.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

I don't like to tell lies.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.