Lying To Save Face Quotes & Sayings

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I suppose you can guess the whole story now? After all, it's a primitive story. A man had two enemies. He was a wise man. And so he discovered that two enemies are better than one. — G.K. Chesterton

We can love anyone at a safe distance, but loving people in the thick of their mess takes the supernatural love of Jesus working in us. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Not a facade of cockiness to hide deeper insecurities, but a true self-belief and measured evaluation of what she could and could not accomplish. — R.A. Salvatore

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers. — Pawel Pawlikowski

We often do not see what we do not expect to see. — Alan Lightman

In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God. — Vincent De Paul

I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. — Veronica Roth

Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you. — Rebecca O'Donnell

It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face ... — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Scar. I still don't know his real name. The man's like Beetlejuice... or hell, maybe he's Voldemort. He's fucking Bloody Mary. Don't dare say his name or he might show up. — J.M. Darhower

All life is a jest, Imhotep - and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die. — Agatha Christie

You wanted this," he said quietly.
"I want closure," I returned, at this point mostly lying in order to save face.
"You want me."
Whoosh.
There went my breath. — Kristen Ashley

Simone! Are you all right? Simone!"
And a voice, grunting with pain, says, "Todd?"
And-
And it ain't Simone's voice.
The smoke starts to clear.
And it ain't Simone.
"You saved me, Todd," says the Mayor, lying there, bad burns all over his face and hands, his clothes smoking like a brush fire. "You saved my life."
And his eyes are full of wonder of it-
That in the rush of the explozhun the person I chose to save-
The one I chose without even thinking-
(without there even being time for him to control me-)
(no time for him to make me do it-)
Was the Mayor. — Patrick Ness

When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.' — Pauline Neville-Jones