Liars Quotes - Page 5

• A liar should have a good memory.

  Quintilian

  Motivational, Honesty, Memories

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.1471, Delphi Classics

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• According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about women is their eyes. And women say the first thing they notice about men is they're a bunch of liars.

  Jay Leno

  Eye, Funny Relationship, Men

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• If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Memories

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

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• Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

  Peter Kreeft

  Life Changing, Lying, Selfish

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• All men are born truthful and die liars.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Lying, Men, Truthful

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• She knew too much. -A

  Sara Shepard

  Too Much

  "Pretty Little Liars: Keep Your Friends Close". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

  Sophie Hannah

  Lying, Opportunity, People

  Sophie Hannah (2009). “Little Face: Culver Valley Crime”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

  Deb Caletti

  Losing Someone, Losing

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• Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

  Anna Magnani

  Love, Lying, Passion

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• He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Territory, Return

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lying, Wish, Deceit

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

  Bernard Baruch

  Business, Trying, Done

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?!

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Prove

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• In any case, [y]ou can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches.

  Moshe Feiglin

  Thieves, Culture, Monkeys

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• They minute people fall in love they become liars.

  Harlan Ellison

  Falling In Love, People, Criminal Mind

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption.

  F. L. Lucas

  Memories, Reading, Voyages

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• The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

  Randal Marlin

  Lying, Foundation, Want

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.153, Broadview Press

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• The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Atheism, Patient, Healer

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• When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Change, Broken Heart, Men

  Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Men, Half

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• The other day John McCain appeared on the show 'The View,' and one of the hosts accused McCain of being a liar. Yeah, she may have a point, because McCain started the interview by saying, 'Ladies, you look beautiful.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Beautiful, Views, Looks

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• I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

  Plato

  Inspiring, Critics, Prove

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• Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

  Auberon Waugh

  Being Ignored, Abuse, Forgiving

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• I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

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• With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Wrath, Tears

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