Liars Quotes - Page 29

• My father is a liar and so am I.
  But I’m going to stop. I have to stop.
  I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions.
  That’s my promise.
  This time I truly mean it.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Lying, Father, Mean

  Justine Larbalestier (2010). “How to Ditch Your Fairy”, p.313, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to distinguish the lies that the liar himself believes in-a way to signal those lies that could more accurately be understood as dreams.

  Rivka Galchen

  Dream, Lying, Believe

  Rivka Galchen (2008). “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel”, p.56, Macmillan

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• What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.

  Jane Rogers

  Jesus, People, Saint

  Jane Rogers (2001). “Island”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

  James L. Farmer, Jr.

  Lying, Rights, Hands

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• A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

  Anita Brookner

  Lying, Men, Charm

  Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

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• Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Lying, Writing, Natural

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• Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mom, Children, Dad

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• The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.

  Helen Thomas

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• He gave me his word. That means something to a man like Donovan Caine. Yeah, it means you'll realize he's an exceptionally good liar when you're clutching your intestines and choking on your own blood on his living room floor.

  Jennifer Estep

  Mean, Men, Blood

  Jennifer Estep (2010). “Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination. I cannot prove to you there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Thinking, Law

  "Einstein and the poet". Book by William Hermanns, p. 132, 1983.

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• I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

  Clark Gable

  Hate, Lying, Sides

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell, "Liar." Their strategy is simply to yell, "Liar, liar, liar."

  Ted Cruz

  Play, Doe, Television

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Ted Cruz has been playing an ad about me that is so ridiculously false, no basis in fact. Take ad down, Ted. Biggest liar in politics.

  Donald Trump

  Facts, Bases, Has Beens

  Twitter post from Feb 22, 2016

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• Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Mean, Fiction, Stranger

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “This Isn't What It Looks Like: The Secret Series”, p.7, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I learned words, I learned words; but half of them
  died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use
  often look at me
  with a look that whispers, Liar.

  Norman MacCaig

  Exercise, Looks, Use

  Norman MacCaig (2013). “The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig”, p.13, Birlinn

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• 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lying, Men, Law

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

  Georges Bernanos

  Hate

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "Interview with History". Book by Oriana Fallaci, 1974.

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• Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

  Plutarch

  Lying

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 485-487, 1922.

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• I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).

  Anne Lamott

  Bullying, Majority Leader, Years

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• I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
  [Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]

  Plautus

  Truth, Hate, Ego

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• Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Country, Law, Civilization

  Katherine Anne Porter (2015). “Ship of Fools: A Novel”, p.126, Open Road Media

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• I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

  Brittany Murphy

  Lying, Rotten, Advantage

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• I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.

  Clive Owen

  Horse, Thinking, Winning

  "The player" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2004.

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• The truthful man is usually a liar.

  Alfred Nobel

  Men, Truthful

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