Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tennessee Williams

Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

Robert M. Pirsig

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 E. Sherwood

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Voltaire

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

William Safire

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

William Shenstone

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Faulkner

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

Witold Gombrowicz

A brilliant liar; he has total recall.

William Wallace

Truth is truth, even when told by a liar.

Will Rogers

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

Will Rogers

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Zach Braff

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?

Walter Mosley

Lawyer even sounds like liar.