Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

John Steinbeck

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

Nina Bawden

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar,

Meg Cabot

High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life - those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in *high school*? High school is something *everybody* should be ready to lose.

Meg Cabot

I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.

Mark Shields

Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maya Angelou

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

Michael Haneke

Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.

Mel Torme

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

Mark Ruffalo

A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.

Ted Cruz

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

What we saw with both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, that their response, whenever you point to anything in their record, is just to yell, "Liar, liar, liar," and to get very personal and to make direct character attacks. And my approach, from the very beginning of this [President's] campaign, starting a year ago [in 2015], is that I will not respond in kind. I do not intend to insult any of the candidates.

Ted Cruz

I don`t get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. Donald [Trump], you`re a snivelling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone. This man is a compulsive liar.

Theodore Roosevelt

'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

The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

Margaret Mitchell

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

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

Michael Tomasky

John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working

The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

Mila Kunis

It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired.

Joseph Addison

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

Johnny Cash

I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time the feelings disappears. What have I become, my sweetest of friends?

James Hunter

...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK.

George Ball

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Gennifer Flowers

Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.

James Connolly

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 Cook

Liars seldom believe anyone else.

Luc de Clapiers

All men are born truthful and die liars.

Luc de Clapiers

A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.

Lord Chesterfield

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 Byron

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.