Good Lies Quotes

• Si dices la verdad, ¡no necesitas buena memoria!

  Mark Twain

  Verdad, honestidad, recuerdos

  Mark Twain Clásicos HD (2015). "Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn: por Mark Twain (Ilustrado y no resumido)", p.2, Clásicos HD.

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• I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

  Werner Herzog

  Lying, Believe, Cinema

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• La mejor política es siempre decir la verdad, a menos, claro está, que seas un mentiroso excepcionalmente bueno.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Divertido, Verdad, Mentirosos

  The Idler Feb. 1892, p. 118

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• Un hombre sabio no desperdicia un bien tan bueno como mentir por nada.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Lying, Men

  Mark Twain Susan K. Harris (1994). "Romances históricos: The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc", p.115, Library of America

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• Las historias pueden ser mentiras, pero son buenas mentiras que dicen cosas verdaderas, y que a veces pueden pagar el alquiler.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mentir, Escribir, Historias

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• Las buenas mentiras necesitan un poco de verdad para que sean aceptables.

  William McIlvanney

  Lying, Needs

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• People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, People, Needs

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• La mayoría de las veces se trata de mentiras, escribiendo novelas. Te propones contar una historia falsa y tratas de hacerla creíble, incluso para ti mismo. Lo que requiere detalles; cualquier buena mentira lo hace.

  Anne Tyler

  Lying, Writing, Trying

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• And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Wise, Wisdom, Lying

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1098, Delphi Classics

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• The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Men, Savages

  'Love and Mr Lewisham' (1900) ch. 23

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• Los hombres somos mentirosos. Mentiremos sobre mentir si es necesario. Soy un mentiroso de álgebra. Creo que dos buenas mentiras hacen un positivo.

  Tim Allen

  Divertido, Positivo, Mentirosos

  "Consigue el trabajo de tus sueños: High-Performance Techniques to Get Noticed, Get Hired, and Get Ahead". Libro de John Middleton, Ken Langdon y Nikki Cartwright, 2007.

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

  Dennis Lehane

  Lying, Accepted, Leaks

  Dennis Lehane (2006). “Coronado LP”, WmMorrow

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• When we move forward into our future, knowing and using the treasures within, then only good lies before us. We can know and affirm that everything that happens to us is for our highest good and greatest joy, truly believing that we can't go wrong.

  Louise Hay

  Lying, Moving Forward, Believe

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Life!: Reflections on Your Journey”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

  Tamora Pierce

  Lying, Hands, Differences

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• Los que hacemos historias sabemos que nos ganamos la vida contando mentiras. Pero son buenas mentiras que dicen cosas verdaderas, y les debemos a nuestros lectores construirlas lo mejor que podamos. Porque en algún lugar ahí fuera hay alguien que necesita esa historia. Alguien que crecerá con un paisaje diferente, que sin esa historia será una persona diferente. Y que con esa historia podrá tener esperanza, o sabiduría, o bondad, o consuelo. Y por eso escribimos.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Kindness, Lying

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• En su sentido más amplio, la religión afirma que existe un orden invisible y que nuestro bien supremo reside en una relación correcta con él.

  William James

  Lying, Order, Unseen

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• A lot of Congressmen yesterday were upset when Kenneth Lay took the Fifth. Lay said it wasn't his fault. He had planned on testifying, but when Jeffrey Skilling testified, he took all the really good lies.

  Jay Leno

  Lying, Yesterday, Upset

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• Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor liar.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Lying, Liars, Writing

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.102, Macmillan

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• Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Lying, Sides

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• I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.

  Gary Numan

  Lying, Dark, Light

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• There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction. To that and to the art of telling good lies. And what is fiction but the telling of lies?

  Donna Levin

  Art, Lying, Writing

  Donna Levin (1996). “Get That Novel Written!”, Writers Digest Books

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• There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you’re with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

  Harlan Coben

  Lying, Forever, Pay

  Harlan Coben (2012). “Seconds Away (Book Two): A Mickey Bolitar Novel”, p.146, Penguin

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• La Biblia dice: "La verdad os hará libres". Pero no olvidemos que fue Spiro Agnew quien dijo que una buena mentira te mantendrá fuera de la cárcel en primer lugar.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Wisdom, Lying, Jail

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• Maldita sea, es el primer deber de un soldado - es el primer deber de todos los ingleses - ser capaz de decir una buena mentira en respuesta a una acusación.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Lying, Soldier, Able

  Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.77, Vintage

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• I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been good to be all week, and the three places I missed, I didn't get good lies.

  Darren Clarke

  Lying, Fighting, Deceit

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