Liars Quotes - Page 18

• That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, People, Facts

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.188, Penguin

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• ...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

  Edith Wharton

  Clever, Giving, Details

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.239, Booklassic

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• I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

  Lawrence Block

  Hurt, Pain, Men

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• Everyone's a liar. Everyone I've ever known.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Known

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• A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Eye, Oysters

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• I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Fool, Excellent, Knows

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• All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Honesty, Mean, Eye

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, Chapter 26, "Lanre Turned" (p. 203), 2007.

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• I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Hate, Light

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.204, Beacon Press

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• You're a liar!" He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when I'm telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You've got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Home, Eye, Black

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Only the liar knows he's lying

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Knows

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• What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

  Joanne Harris

  Fiction

  "Blueeyedboy". Book by Joanne Harris, 2010.

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• There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

  Tina Fey

  Food, Doe, Lobster

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• And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Men, Scared

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pretending, Said, Sincerely

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1052, Macmillan

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• That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.

  Ally Carter

  Sound, Fool, Sometimes

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.

  Gregg Olsen

  Wall, Lying, Stories

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• Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

  Philip Pullman

  Powerful, Lying, Mean

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Never Trust, Storyteller

  Matthew J. Kirby (2011). “Icefall”, p.161, Scholastic Inc.

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• Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.

  Jerry Stahl

  Junkie

  "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.

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• I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first became well known, to read criticism about how I look, how messy my hair was, and how generally unkempt I look. The nastiest thing ever written was written by a man, and I do remember that. I wasn't looking for it either, it was just simply in the newspaper I was reading.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Reading

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• When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Kindness, Father

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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• My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.

  Bob Hope

  Witty, Sex, Father

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• I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

  Gladys Mitchell

  Lying, Sacred, Highlander

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• Funny story: I was hanging out with Adam Shankman for Samantha Ronson's birthday, and Lance Bass was there. I don't really know Lance, but he comes over to me and goes, 'Hey, I just wanted to let you know I'm a fan of 'Pretty Little Liars' and I'm rooting for your character.' It was surreal! That's how 'PLL' has changed my life.

  Ryan Guzman

  Character, Hey, Bass

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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