Philippa Gregory Quotes

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

I'm a really bad liar.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

Faithful heart may have froward tongue.

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

In a world where I have to hide my heart and what I believe in. But somehow I will show the world what's inside.

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.