Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.

Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with...

You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says ‘look here, look here,’ the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And that’s exactly what happened at the earnings conference today.

Magdalena doesn’t ask what Rebecka is doing at the hospital. That’s how Rebecka realizes that Magdalena knows. It’s the things you don’t say. That’s what always gives a person away.

The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part

It’s disappointing enough to know that the people we love will sometimes lie, but it is almost worse when we remember that strangers do this too, and this is why it is best not to...

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be...

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it’s charms.

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would’ve told him I was into cannibalism.

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this … I still love scribbling the word – WRITER – any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write...

Evidence doesn’t always convince people of the truth, […] especially when the lie is what they prefer.

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty,...

Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong.

People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,…,and he had very red hair.

The heart never lies

I would rather live a life alone, than live a life built on lies, deceit and manipulation”.

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you...

I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself: why in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do...

When I consider Life, ’tis all a cheat;Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay:To-morrow’s falser than the former day;Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blestWith...

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

Just because you have stolen someone’s heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn’t give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.

[S]ecrets are like stars. They blaze inside the heart and ultimately could be explosive. But there are two types of secrets. Small secrets, like small stars, will eventually burn out. With time and space they...

You know I love you. You’re the only one.””She isn’t the first woman he’s ever said that to. He shouldn’t have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn’t have treated it...

You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of...

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

The truth doesn’t get you very far on the streets, or in a group home, or even in high school. That’s probably why the idea of Liars, Inc. appealed to me. Everybody lies. You might...

If you cannot lie, tell a different truth.

No forgiveness for lies.

We never see ourselves the way we truly are, do we, Will? The mirror lies to us.

good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to...

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.

You did listen.” He sat back, nodding his head. “Okay, then. Now tell me what you really thought.””I told you. It was interesting.””Interesting,” he said, “is not a word.””Since when?””It’s a placeholder. Something you use...

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

What you see will hurt you; what you don’t see will hurt you.

Words stick, even when we don’t want them to.

Lying is the new truth.

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I’d always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.

A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood...

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.

It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their...

There are no secrets.’ The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. ‘None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is...

I had a dream I bought a popcorn maker that would pop pennies into cornuts, so I bought stock in corn wow was I nuts. That’s what my therapist said. He is just plain nuts...