Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

Diana Wynne Jones

But Sophie and Howl were holding one another's hand and smiling and smiling, quite unable to stop. "Don't bother me know," said Howl. "I only did it for the money." "Liar!"said Sophie. "I said," Michael said, "that Calcifer's come back!" That did get Howl's attention and Sophie's too.

Dean Koontz

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

Bryant H. McGill

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Al Franken

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.'

Barry Gibb

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

Brittany Murphy

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

Edwidge Danticat

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.

William Hazlitt

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.

Bob Dylan

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.

Bodhidharma

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

Brandon Sanderson

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

Aretha Franklin

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.

Clark Gable

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.

Arthur Guiterman

No true reform has ever come to pass Unchallenged by a liar and an ass.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

Janice Dickinson

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.

Carl Sandburg

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

Abraham Pais

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.

Ally Carter

It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can’t really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.

Ally Carter

That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.

Ally Carter

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

Ally Carter

Note to self: Rachel Morgan is a totally awesome liar.

Ally Carter

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

Ann Coulter

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.

Daniel Craig

I'm a really bad liar.

Clive Barker

You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.

Donald Trump

Ted Cruz has been playing an ad about me that is so ridiculously false, no basis in fact. Take ad down, Ted. Biggest liar in politics.

Donald Trump

If you talk about people that lie, this Ted Cruz, this is the biggest liar I've ever seen.

Alfred Nobel

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Albert Einstein

About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination. I cannot prove to you there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws