Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Bowie

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

David Jeremiah

Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.

Cormac McCarthy

The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.

Daphne du Maurier

He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.

Orson Scott Card

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

Orson Scott Card

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

David Attenborough

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

Curtis Jackson

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

Daniel Wallace

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

Daniel Tosh

You know who makes a great first impression? Liars.

Alastair Campbell

For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.

Daniel Keys Moran

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

D. A. Carson

The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).

D. H. Lawrence

Lies About Love We are all liars, because The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the letter of truth. The love I feel for my friend, this year, is different from the love I felt last year. If it were not so, it would be a lie. Yet we reiterate love! love! love! as if it were a coin with fixed value instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.

William Shakespeare

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

William Shakespeare

I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

Adrienne Rich

The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

Agatha Christie

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

Auberon Waugh

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're a liar!" He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when I'm telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You've got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.

Robert Kiyosaki

We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

Cecelia Ahern

It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we’re living in such different worlds, I don’t know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what he’s been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting once upon a time.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Guy Kawasaki

There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.

Esther Forbes

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

Ernest Hemingway

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

Erma Bombeck

The woman who says, 'My kids are all speaking to one another and they love us' is a psychopathic liar.

Henry Miller

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Cassandra Clare

He's not a liar at all. Not about important things. He'll tell you horrible truths, but he won't lie." She paused before she added quietly: "That's why it's generally better not ask him anything unless you know you can stand to hear the answer.

Hillary Clinton

Look, [Hillary Clinton] is been proven to be a liar on so many different ways. This is just another lie.

Hillary Clinton

Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?!

Hillary Clinton

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

George Bernard Shaw

Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.