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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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• One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours; probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for if I do not, I must think him a beast.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, Believe, Wine

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.104, Oxford University Press

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• Success has always been a great liar.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Congratulations, Great Liar

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• I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Girl, Lying, Thinking

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• How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Lying, People, Soul

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.536, Hamilton Books

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• Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fear, Thinking, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Feb 10, 2015

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• This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

  Dorothy Parker

  Horse, Bird, Brain

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Potters, Cheat

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• I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm going to make sure they get exactly what they deserve. Does that make me sound awful? Sorry, but as every pretty little liar knows, sometimes the truth's ugly-and it always hurts. I'll be watching.... Mwah! -A

  Sara Shepard

  Hurt, Sorry, Fun

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• Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Way, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Cutting, Faithful, Eternal Love

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.163, Penguin

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• As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

  John Green

  Children, Novelists

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• Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.

  John Irving

  Falling In Love, Ordinary, Stories

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• The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two.

  Justin Halpern

  Two, Numbers, Nazi

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• There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

  Kevin Bacon

  Two, Actors, Want

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• Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Government, Political, Thieves

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• America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form best adapted to telling the lies we like to hear and to pretend we believe.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Art, Lying, Believe

  Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

  Raymond Carver

  Becoming, Thieves, Strange

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• Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, shame and degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland-yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.

  James Connolly

  Heart, Men, People

  James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”

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• I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves,
  I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets.
  That's where I'm seeking God, cause that's where He found me.

  Killer Mike

  Rap, Hip Hop, Pimp

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• Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

  Gore Vidal

  Believe, Mad, Always Believe

  Gore Vidal (1995). “Palimpsest: a memoir”

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• Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizing—I’m a liar, in fact. That means I’m a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.

  Alberto Moravia

  Real, Writing, Mean

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• Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.

  William Hazlitt

  Practice, Effort, Gains

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1498, Delphi Classics

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