Edward Grey Quotes

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Hope is the denial of reality.

Everything would have been all right if Hitler hadn't lied to me.

All men prefer a false promise to a flat refusal.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.