Liars Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, White, History

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• How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?

  Michael Josephson

  Trust, Betrayal, Integrity

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• The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Humorous, Exercise

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• A liar ought to have a good memory.

  Quintilian

  Memories, Army, Ought

  Quintilian (1873). “Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator”, p.292

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• Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

  Milt Gross

  Golf, Men, People

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• Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

  John le Carre

  Loyalty, Gentleman, Criminals

  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963).

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• We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Believe, Army, Telling The Truth

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• A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lying, Clothes, Rags

  Carl Sandburg (1921). “Smoke and Steel”

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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 didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.

  Frank Buckles

  Lying, Age, May

  "Last surviving U.S. World War I vet honored by president" by Paul Courson, edition.cnn.com. March 8, 2008.

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• Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.

  Helen McCloy

  Dream, Lying, Personality

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• I just think people are so used to seeing me on shows like Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars, which are more geared toward teens. But in reality, I could have a 12-year-old kid.

  Torrey DeVitto

  Kids, Reality, Thinking

  "How Torrey DeVitto Stabilized Her 'Crazy' Career". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. March 15, 2013.

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• The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.

  Jimmy Moore

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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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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• Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I feel a lot of sympathy for the young women I've written about, including Younger Janice. I think that all of them (me in Girlbomb, Samantha in Have You Found Her, and Elizabeth in I, Liar) had some early family trauma that contributed to their dysfunctional methods of dealing with the world, but I wouldn't call them/myself victims - survivors, maybe, but not victims. Nor do I think of them/myself as con artists.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Artist, Thinking, Survivor

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Remember, Trouble

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• I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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• If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

  Ernest Becker

  Lying, Normal, Sanity

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• Note to our readers - Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who was repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims - 1.6 million members of an entire religion - from entering the U.S.

  Ryan Grim

  Bully, Racist, Entering

  "Roundtable: Donald Trump's Media Tactics". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin and Michael Oreskes, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.

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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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• There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

  Marie Corelli

  Truth, Writing, Men

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