Liars famous quotes
05-24-2025
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
-- A. A. Milne -
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
-- A. N. Wilson -
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.
-- Abraham Pais -
The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's... And everybody in your business.
-- Aceyalone -
If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not mean that science is a liar. Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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 -
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
-- Aesop -
I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.
-- Agatha Christie -
There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'
-- Al Franken -
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.
-- Alan Moore -
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 -
Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.
-- Ali Meshkini -
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 -
Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.
-- Ally Carter -
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.
-- Aminatta Forna -
There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
-- Amy Bloom -
It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave--and the liar said it really happened--was that once while drinking orange juice, he'd realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar 'realizations.' Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn't enough. Once I had food poisoning, and realized I was trapped inside my body.
-- Amy Hempel -
I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.
-- Anderson Cooper -
Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
-- Anderson Cooper -
We will be whatever they need us to be. Call us emo's, liars, and cheaters...tell people how awful we are and how little talent we have...do whatever it takes to make themselves feel better because at the end of the day, we are strong, we can take it. We don't need their approval to justify our lives. Each and every one of us has a fire that burns inside us and they can try like hell to put out that flame but as long as in our minds we know who we are meant to be, they don't stand a chance.
-- Andy Biersack -
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
-- Anita Brookner -
The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It's an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites.
-- Ann Coulter -
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
-- Anna Magnani -
I need some space." "Because of my past?" "No, because of mine. When I'm around you I feel like I'm falling. I need to stop before I smash into the ground." "Are you always so honest?" "No. Mostly I'm a liar like you.
-- Anna McPartlin -
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
-- Anne Carson -
He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.
-- Anne Heche -
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 -
A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.
-- Anne Roiphe -
You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.
-- Aretha Franklin -
You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.
-- Aristippus -
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
-- Aristotle -
No true reform has ever come to pass Unchallenged by a liar and an ass.
-- Arthur Guiterman -
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger -
Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.
-- Auberon Waugh -
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
-- Augustus William Hare -
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.
-- Ayn Rand -
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 -
I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him.
-- Ben Bailey -
I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.
-- Ben Harper -
I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
-- Ben Lerner -
Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary, and very properly assuming that Christ told the truth, it follows that the State is without [in the words of Father Macksey] 'judicial authority to determine when war is necessary,' because it is never necessary.
-- Ben Salmon -
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
-- Bergen Evans -
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
-- Betty Smith -
Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.
-- Betty Smith -
Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.
-- Bill Maher -
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
-- Billy Sunday -
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery.... It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend.
-- Billy Sunday -
Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.
-- Bob Dylan -
Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?
-- Bob Kerrey -
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
-- Bodhidharma -
The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
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 -
I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law.
-- Bryan Stevenson -
Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.
-- C. S. Lewis -
A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
-- Carl Sandburg -
I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.
-- Caroline Kennedy -
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
-- Charles Francis Richter -
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
-- Charles Peguy -
There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.
-- Charley Reese -
Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. ... You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.
-- Charlie Parker -
Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are.
-- Chris Chelios -
In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.
-- Chris Murray -
...that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83...If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late.
-- Christopher Paul Curtis -
Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.
-- Cindy Sheehan -
I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.
-- Clarissa Ward -
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 -
But I felt like Pablo Escobar felt like he was an honorable businessman. And when he killed people, I think he felt he did it because they were honorable. That they were liars and were trying to cheat him. I don't think he had a lot of respect for the politicians in Columbia at the time, so he had quite a lot of fun killing them.
-- Cliff Curtis -
I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
-- Clive Owen -
We're all liars when it serves our purpose.
-- Cornelia Funke -
It's weird watching President Bush struggle with excuses for why we went to war. As he struggles, it reminds us all what a terrific liar Bill Clinton really was.
-- Craig Kilborn -
The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).
-- D. A. Carson -
Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Lies About Love We are all liars, because The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the letter of truth. The love I feel for my friend, this year, is different from the love I felt last year. If it were not so, it would be a lie. Yet we reiterate love! love! love! as if it were a coin with fixed value instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
-- Dale Archer -
Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
-- Daniel Keys Moran -
Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.
-- Daniel Keys Moran -
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 -
A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
-- Daniel Wallace -
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
-- Daniel Webster -
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
-- David Bowie -
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
-- David Mitchell -
I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.
-- David Poole -
When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.
-- Dean Koontz
