Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

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.

Chris Chelios

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.

David Mitchell

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

Bryan Stevenson

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.

Caroline Kennedy

I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

Catherynne M. Valente

Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor liar.

Kurt Vonnegut

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

Charles Dickens

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Charles Dickens

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

Charles Dickens

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

Charles Dickens

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

Charles Dickens

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

Arthur Rimbaud

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Gore Vidal

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.

Albert Einstein

I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.

Alice Walker

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

David Levithan

If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

Jincy Willett

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Garrett Hardin

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

Flann O'Brien

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

James A. Baldwin

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.