Quotes of Fib - somelinesforyou

“ They say we are Almost as like as eggs. - The Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales. ”

- Mike Myers

“ When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth. ”

- Albert Finney

“ I rather like getting away from fiction. ”

- Penelope Lively

“ The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. ”

- Harold Evans

“ A tale in everything. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Tush! These are trifles, and mere old wives' tales. ”

- Christopher Marlowe

“ Beware of him that telleth tales. ”

- Unknown

“ 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot, and thereby hangs a tale. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ When it comes to the past, EVERYONE writes fiction. ”

- Stephen King

“ I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. ”

- Bible

“ God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. ”

- Bible

“ When scandal has new-minted an old lie,Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply,'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appearsGathering around it with erected ears. ”

- William Cowper

“ But that he wrought so high the specious tale, as manifested plainly 'twas a lie. ”

- Ludovico Ariosto

“ Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. ”

- Robert Southey
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