Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Miller

A gun is a liar's weapon

George Mikes

If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

George W. Bush

It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for the book publishing industry. You've heard some of the titles. 'Big Lies,' 'The Lies of George W. Bush,' 'The Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.' I'd like to tell you I've read each of these books, but that'd be a lie.

George R. R. Martin

Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.

George R. R. Martin

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

Jean Cocteau

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Graham Greene

When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.

Horace

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

Hannah Arendt

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Guy de Maupassant

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

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.

Once Around the Sun - Nostalgia is a seductive liar

Jason Isaacs

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

Jane Porter

We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.

Etgar Keret

His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.

Cassandra Clare

Love makes liars of us all.

Cassandra Clare

It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.

Cassandra Clare

Love make us a liar. . Jace Wayland/Herondale, City of Ashes

Cassandra Clare

Cucumber and bergamot," Clary said. "Is there anything else you hate that I ought to know about?" Jace looked at Dorothea over the rim of his teacup. "Liars," he said.

Cassandra Clare

Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.

Harold Brodkey

I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calk, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and be riven. ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event.

Jesse Ventura

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying,

Jay Leno

According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about women is their eyes. And women say the first thing they notice about men is they're a bunch of liars.

Cassandra Clare

Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

Cassandra Clare

Love makes you a liar.

Mickey Rooney

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

Kristin Chenoweth

A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of a great lie. I'm plenty imaginative. But before the words are even out of my mouth, there's a weird tickle of unease in my armpits, a horsefly of guilt lands on the back of my neck, and before I can stop myself, that gassy little bubble of truth belches out.

J. K. Rowling

The difficult thing, the glorious thing, was to be who you really were, even if that person was cruel or dangerous, particularly if cruel and dangerous. There was courage in not distinguishing the animal you happened to be. On the other hand, you had to avoid pretending to be more of an animal than you were: take that path, start exaggerating or faking and you became just another Cubby, just as much of a liar, a hypocrite

H. L. Mencken

One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.