Liars Quotes - Page 33

• Liar! Liar!" shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. "Back, Witch--" he commanded. "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife--" she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury--"and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more--

  William Goldman

  Thinking, Doors, Wife

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.197, A&C Black

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• We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

  Holly Black

  Thinking, Trying, Honest

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar.

  Alison Croggon

  Love You, Thinking, Vanity

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• We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

  Cornelia Funke

  Purpose, Inkheart

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.136, Chicken House

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• When it comes to love, everyone is a liar.

  Brady Udall

  Love Everyone

  Brady Udall (2013). “The Lonely Polygamist”, p.457, Random House

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• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Fear

  "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King Jr., 1967.

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• She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.

  Holly Black

  Lying, Upset, Looks

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.

  James Dean Bradfield

  Song, Writing, People

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• Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

  John Brown

  Character, Honor, Ruffian

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• As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Lying, Inspiration

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.218, Oxford University Press

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• Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

  Lewis Hine

  Lying, May, Photograph

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• Every fighter that ever lived had fear. A boy comes to me and tells me that he's not afraid, if I believed him I'd say he's a liar or there's something wrong with him. I'd send him to a doctor to find out what the hell's the matter with him, because this is not a normal reaction. The fighter that's gone into the ring and hasn't experienced fear is either a liar or a psychopath.

  Cus D'Amato

  Boys, Doctors, Boxing

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• I love him for his sake;
  And yet I know him a notorious liar,
  Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
  Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him
  That they take place when virtue's steely bones
  Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see
  Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  I Love Him, Thinking, Wind

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.217

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• When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a liar.

  Gordon Pirie

  Running, Athlete, Race

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• All blues singers are great liars.

  Lester Bangs

  Singers, Great Liar

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• I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time - you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along - every time you start something new.

  John Cusack

  Time, Lying, Long

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• Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

  Bob Kerrey

  Stupid, Humorous, Realizing

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• It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

  George Vaillant

  Butterfly, Littles, Common

  George E. Vaillant (1977). “Adaptation to Life”, p.197, Harvard University Press

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• The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Truth, Lying, Philosophy

  "Donald Rumsfeld Hasn't Learned a Damn Thing" by James G. Blight and Janet M. Lang, www.politico.com. April 04, 2014.

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• Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

  Charles Francis Richter

  Earthquakes, Fool, Charlatans

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• It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Doors, Going Away

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• Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?

  Maynard James Keenan

  Mirrors, Differences, Lawyer

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• I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?

  Zach Braff

  Trials, Fudge, Want

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• Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)

  Marilyn Monroe

  Running, Sweet, Kissing

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• IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Imagination, Joints

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.96, 谷月社

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