Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Tolstoy

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Lester Bangs

All blues singers are great liars.

Lewis Hine

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

Lewis Black

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.

Tom Hanks

I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.

Tina Fey

There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

Sam Harris

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

Sallust

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Sabrina Carpenter

Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is Pretty Little Liars. It's my favorite show. I wish I could get into other shows but I just don't have time!

Robert A. Heinlein

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

Robert A. Heinlein

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

Natalie Imbruglia

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

Richard Shepard

I think people are a mixture of everything. I like desperate characters because they do things that most of us normally wouldn't do. If a character is a scoundrel or a liar you think you know them, but then I can bring some emotion to them and they become much fuller than you ever imagined. So what I try to do is have a story where you don't quite know where it's going, and characters who you don't quite know where they're going.

Raymond Carver

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.

T. D. Jakes

I came to serve notice on the devil- he is a liar!

Joy Behar

I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers.

Justin Halpern

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.

Joshua Lederberg

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

Pamela Anderson

I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Don't repeat the lies of the liars.

Scott Peterson

Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.

Lincoln Kirstein

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

Laura Anne Gilman

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

L. Ron Hubbard

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

Sylvia Plath

And I, love, am a pathological liar,

Steve Albini

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

Uta Hagen

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

Susanna Moodie

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

Sophocles

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

Sophocles

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Sophie Hannah

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

Vernor Vinge

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.