Beautiful Lies Quotes:

I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

- Lisa Unger

source: Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.69, Crown

topic: Girl, Sexy, Kindness, Pick Yourself Up, Kindness For Weakness

When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.

- Lisa Unger

source: Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.259, Crown

topic: Love, Fall, Eye, Inner Self, Infatuated

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

- Lisa Unger

source: Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.441, Crown

topic: Secret, Universe, Beautiful Lies

If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.

- Jerzy Grotowski

source: Jerzy Grotowski (2012). “Towards a Poor Theatre”, p.236, Routledge

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Want, Beautiful Lies

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

- James Gibbons

source: James Gibbons (1896). “The Ambassador of Christ”

topic: Ethics, Truth Is, Commodity, White Lie, Beautiful Lies

Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?

- Miriam Toews

source: Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Helping, Beautiful Lies

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

- Lisa Unger

topic: Memories, Mean, Events, Retelling, Taffy

Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

- Sarah Kane

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Insanity, Beautiful Lies

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

- Claude Debussy

source: "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.

topic: Beautiful, Hope, Art, Utilitarian, Beautiful Lies

Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.

- Iceberg Slim

source: Iceberg Slim (2011). “Trick Baby”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Ugly, Iceberg, Chumps

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

- John Green

topic: Love, Romantic, Beautiful, Inspiring Long Distance Relationship, Long Distance True Love

Beautiful Lies is a book every woman should read. Jennifer Strickland weaves the powerful story of her life throughout each chapter while emphasizing transformational truths from God's Word. Her vulnerability, exquisite writing style, and practical take-home applications make this book the ideal choice for personal or for small group use.

- Carol Kent

topic: Beautiful, Powerful, Lying, Writing Style, Beautiful Lies

life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages.

- Frank O'Hara

source: Frank O'Hara (2005). “In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems”, p.81, The Museum of Modern Art

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Different, Beautiful Lies

With your face and your beautiful eyes and the coversations with the little white lies and the faded picture of a beautiful lie you carry me from your car up the stairs,and I broke down crying was she worth this mess? After everything and that little black dress.After everything i must confess...I need you <3'':) -Taylor Swift

- Taylor Swift

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Eye, White Lie, Beautiful Eyes

So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

- Charles Bukowski

source: Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.87, Canongate Books

topic: Beautiful Lies

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

- Mira Grant

source: Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.133, Hachette UK

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Life And Death, Between Life And Death, Choose Life

The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.

- Charles Ludlam

source: "Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly: the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam".

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Theater, Beautiful Lies

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.

- Fernando Pessoa

source: Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Want, Beautiful Lies

Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium... Photograph and be photographed.

- Alexander Rodchenko

topic: Beautiful, Art, War, Beautiful Lies