Those Who Lie Quotes:

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Truth, Honesty, Liars, Lies And Liars, Lies Truth

I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.

- Bruce Springsteen

source: "Bruce Springsteen teases fans with foreword to autobiography Born to Run", www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2016.

topic: Lying, Player, Artist, Homegrown, Those Who Lie

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

- Daniel Berrigan

source: Daniel Berrigan (1996). “Isaiah: Spirit of Courage, Gift of Tears”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

topic: Peace, Lying, Heels, Those Who Lie

Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just in all they do but showing pity also, and compassion; generous when they are rich, and when they are poor, still generous in small ways, still helping as much as they can; always speaking the truth, yet without hating those who lie. And even more honor is due to them when they foresee (as many do foresee) that in the end Ephialtis will make his appearance, that the Medes will break through after all.

- C.P. Cavafy

source: Constantine P. Cavafy, “Thermopylae”

topic: Badass, Hate, Lying, Thermopylae, Those Who Lie

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

- Czeslaw Milosz

source: "Child of Europe" sec. 4 (1946) (translation by Jan Darowski)

topic: Lying, Reality, Tree, Weary Traveler, Those Who Lie

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

- Rebecca West

source: Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.245, Open Road Media

topic: Sympathy, Running, Hurt, Those Who Lie

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

- Graham Greene

source: Graham Greene, Marie-Françoise Allain (1991). “Conversations with Graham Greene”

topic: Lying, Understanding, Tasks, Those Who Lie