Webs Of Lies Quotes:

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

- Walter Scott

source: Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

topic: Wisdom, Truth, Hype, Needlework, Deceived Us

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

- Nicholas Delbanco

topic: Lying, Self, Data, Webs Of Lies

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

- Donald James

topic: Truth, Lying, Generations, Lies Truth, Limited Freedom

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

- Donald James

topic: Self, Perfect, Liberty, Limited Freedom, Webs Of Lies

No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.

- Zadie Smith

topic: Lying, Tangled, Soul, Webs Of Lies, Tangled Webs

The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.

- Loretta Lynch

source: "New York Jury Convicts Three Officers on Charges Related to Torture of Abner Louima". "World Today" with Jim Moret, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2000.

topic: Betrayal, Lying, Police, Webs Of Lies, Police Department

Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.

- Eric Van Lustbader

topic: Song, Lying, Heart, Cautionary Tales, Olivia